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POCHETTE DE MAÎTRE À DANSER de forme oblongue en bateau. La table en épicé

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DANCING MASTER'S POCKET, oblong boat shape. One-piece convex spruce top, unvarnished. Back-to-back C-shaped soundholes topped by a pierced heart. Bone and rosewood veneered neck and fingerboard with inlaid lozenges. Five-rib cutaway back with alternating bone and rosewood veneers and inlaid lozenges. Carved mahogany pegbox with woman's head. Four bone pegs. Ebony tailpiece and knob. Augsburg, late 17th century. Attributed to Thomas I Edlinger, circa 1670.
Total length: 44.3 cm - Case length: 272 cm - Table width: 3.8 cm
(Minor old restorations)
In its original small-iron morocco-covered case.
An adapted mahogany bow with bone frog and knob, probably later, is included.

PROVENANCE
- Silbert Collection (?)
- Marcel Salomon Collection (acquired in 1925), then by posterity to the present day.
The Musée de la Philarmonie de Paris holds a bag attributed to Thomas I Edlinger in Augsburg of very similar size and construction [N° E.82]. This instrument bears a handwritten label on the bottom: "Thomass Rol/In Orna fluvox (?) 1665".