612 :: Italian chitarre battente, 18th century and later, with five triple courses, the head with shaped outline bearing fifteen turned wooden pegs, the front and back of head with foliate engraved bone bands, the edge of the head bearing seventeen turned ivory discs, the front and back of the neck with opposing ebony and bone decoration, the fingerboard with various brass and ebony frets, the deep bowl figured maple back and sides inlaid with boxwood lines, the fine grain spruce top with ebony and pearl inlaid decoration and a continuous band of alternate ebony and boxwood trapezoid inlay to the edges, the sound hole with an ebony rosette inlaid with pearl motifs and inset with a three-tier architectural rose, in a contemporary flight case Overall length 38.25", 97.2cm
Italian chitarre battente, 18th century and later, with five triple courses, the head with shaped outline bearing fifteen turned wooden pegs, the front and back of head with foliate engraved bone bands, the edge of the head bearing seventeen turned ivory discs, the front and back of the neck with opposing ebony and bone decoration, the fingerboard with various brass and ebony frets, the deep bowl figured maple back and sides inlaid with boxwood lines, the fine grain spruce top with ebony and pearl inlaid decoration and a continuous band of alternate ebony and boxwood trapezoid inlay to the edges, the sound hole with an ebony rosette inlaid with pearl motifs and inset with a three-tier architectural rose, in a contemporary flight case Overall length 38.25", 97.2cm; string length 24.25", 61.6cm *See Harvey Turnbull, "The Guitar from The Renaissance to the Present Day", 1974, plate 23d for a photo of this guitar **Purchased from W.E. Hill & Sons for £2650 in 1977
Estimate: £7000-10000
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