Pochette bow

Alternate name(s)

Kit bow
Dancing master's fiddle bow

Date1750-1800 ca.

Place MadeFrance, Europe

Serial No.None

Signednone
DescriptionThis elegant pochette bow preserves its original curved tip and recurved stick.

Stick: round; pernambuco or other dark tropical hardwood; uneven faceting at handle
Head: swan tip; extension on back of head; rounded outline to front and back edge
Frog: dark fruitwood; no slide; iron eyelet
Adjuster: bone; decoratively turned outline
Tip plate: none
DimensionsStick length: 526 mm
Head height: 18.5 mm
Head width (bottom): 8.8 mm
Stick width near tip: 5.5 mm (top to bottom); 5.4 mm (side to side)
Stick width near middle: 6.8 mm (top to bottom); 6.8 mm (side to side)
Stick width at end of handle: 7.9 mm (top to bottom); 8.0 mm (side to side)
Frog height: 22.1 mm (front); 18.1 mm (back)
Frog length (top): 40.9 mm
Frog length (bottom): 47.3 mm
Frog width (top): 8.5 mm (front); 8.4 mm (back)
Frog width (bottom): 10.1 mm (front); 9.5 mm (back)
Weight: 30.6 grams

ProvenancePurchased in 1989 from Wurlitzer-Bruck, New York, New York. Previously owned by Baron Armand van Zuylen, Liege, Belgium.
Published ReferencesImportant Musical Instruments Including the Van Zuylen Collection of Early Instruments (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, March 16, 1988), lot 191, p. 43.

"1989 Acquisitions at USD Music Museum," Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society 19, No. 1 (February 1990), p. 16.

"It's Been an Incredible Decade . . . Museum Makes Important Acquisitions Again in 1989," Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 17, No. 2 (January 1990), p. 7.

André P. Larson, Amadeus: His Music and the Instruments of Eighteenth-century Vienna, exhibition catalog, Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota, February 4-March 2, 1990 (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1990), p. 8.

Paul R. Laird, "That Gut Feeling: The World of Early Strings—The Shrine to Music Museum," Continuo (June 1996), p. 16.

Credit LineArne B. and Jeanne F. Larson Fund, 1989

Object number04652

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