Violin bow
Date1750-1790 ca.
Place MadeEurope
Serial No.none
SignednoneDescriptionThis bow has the long, pointed tip of the baroque period combined with the transitional reverse camber that became common in the second half of the eighteen century.
Stick: round; pernambuco; rounded handle with flattened side toward player; flat area at joint with frog, terminating in pointed outline
Head: swan head with repair; rounded outline to front and back edges
Handle: iron band repair around end
Frog: burled boxwood; no slide; decoratively cut front outline; made for stick with octagonal handle, contemporaneous but not original to bow
Adjuster: bone
Tip plate: none
Wrapping: none
Grip: none
Dimensions712 mm
Stick length: 696 mm
Head height: 17.4 mm
Head width (bottom): 9.4 mm
Stick width near tip: mm 5.0 (top to bottom); 5.4 mm (side to side)
Stick width near middle: 7.9 mm (top to bottom); 8.0 mm (side to side)
Stick width at end of handle: 9.1 mm (top to bottom); 8.4 mm (side to side)
Frog height: 20.4 mm (front); 15.5 mm (back)
Frog length (top): 53.2 mm
Frog length (bottom): 57.9 mm
Frog width (top): 9.9 mm (front); 9.1 mm (back)
Frog width (bottom): 11.8 mm (front); 11.4 mm (back)
Weight (without hair): 51.6 grams
ProvenancePurchased by the National Music Museum from Laurence Witten family, New Haven, Connecticut, 1984.
Credit LineWitten-Rawlins Collection, 1984
Object number03470
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1760 ca.
1650-1700 ca.
1690-1760 ca.
1730-1760 ca.