Mandolin
Angelo Mannello
ca. 1900 · Spruce, tortoiseshell, ivory, nickel-silver, metal, · Musical Instruments
Neapolitan style bowlback mandolin with seventeen inlaid nickel-silver frets on a tortoiseshell fingerboard. The bowl is extraordinarily decorated wiht a rich design of checkerboard pattern ivory and tortoiseshell separated by nickel-silver strips, and a profuse decoration in ivory inlay depicting a naked woman, putti playing instruments, grotesques, and floral designs. These decorative motifs continue on the fingerboard and peghead of the instrument. The maker's name is inlaid around the oblong soundhole.
- Artist
- Angelo Mannello
- Date
- ca. 1900
- Medium
- Spruce, tortoiseshell, ivory, nickel-silver, metal,
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Musical Instruments
- Credit line
- Gift of the family of Angelo Mannello, 1972
