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JEAN-GEORGES MELLING (1712-1771)
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JEAN-GEORGES MELLING (1712-1771)
Hurdy-gurdy with nine-rib lute-shaped soundbox. The soundboard is decorated with a band inlaid with a pistachio. Two C-shaped soundholes. The carved light-wood pegbox ends in a woman's head covered with a shell and flowers. Lid and wheel cover veneered with inlaid fillets. A Louis XIV coin was used as an assembly washer for the crank. Stamped on the case: "Melling à Paris".
France, 18th century. Louis XV period, circa 1760.
Height : 24 cm - Length : 66 cm
Table width: 28 cm
(Accidents, small missing parts, restorations)
Jean-Georges Melling was born on July 8, 1712 in Saint Avold, Moselle. Receiving his master luthier's diploma in 1748, he settled in Paris in the second half of the 18th century, where he specialized in the production of hurdy-gurdies under the name "A la belle Vielleuse". In 1753, he lived on rue Fromenteau, then rue St Thomas du Louvre, and around 1770 on rue des Orties, in the Louvre galleries. A comparable hurdy-gurdy by Jean-Georges Melling is in the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Provence in Grasse [N° 03 45].
Hurdy-gurdy with nine-rib lute-shaped soundbox. The soundboard is decorated with a band inlaid with a pistachio. Two C-shaped soundholes. The carved light-wood pegbox ends in a woman's head covered with a shell and flowers. Lid and wheel cover veneered with inlaid fillets. A Louis XIV coin was used as an assembly washer for the crank. Stamped on the case: "Melling à Paris".
France, 18th century. Louis XV period, circa 1760.
Height : 24 cm - Length : 66 cm
Table width: 28 cm
(Accidents, small missing parts, restorations)
Jean-Georges Melling was born on July 8, 1712 in Saint Avold, Moselle. Receiving his master luthier's diploma in 1748, he settled in Paris in the second half of the 18th century, where he specialized in the production of hurdy-gurdies under the name "A la belle Vielleuse". In 1753, he lived on rue Fromenteau, then rue St Thomas du Louvre, and around 1770 on rue des Orties, in the Louvre galleries. A comparable hurdy-gurdy by Jean-Georges Melling is in the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Provence in Grasse [N° 03 45].