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Viola d’amore
Viola d’amore
Viola d’amore

Viola d’amore

Date1941
Place MadeUtica, New York, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedHandwritten label: Viola d’Amore / Made by / Verne – S – Swan 41 / Copied from a Viola d’amore / of Mr. Robert Dolejsi Chicago, by / L – Ulric Eberle, Prague 1730
Description7 bowed strings, 11 sympathetic strings
Festooned outline
Flame-shaped soundholes
DimensionsOverall length: 82 cm (ca. 32 ¼”)length of back: 43 cm (17”)
Vibrating string length: 37 cm (14 5/8”)
Depth (at center): 6.2 cm (2 3/8”)
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979. Aquired from the maker in 1944.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number04016
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