Title: Cittern
Object type: Cittern
Date: ca. 1685
Culture: German
Artist:  Joachim Tielke 
Artist bio: German, 1641–1719
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Maker
Medium: Cypress, ivory, ebony, parchment, brass
Dimensions: 24 7/8 × 9 5/16 × 2 in. (63.2 × 23.7 × 5.1 cm)
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Credit line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift and Rogers Fund, 1985
Geography:  Hamburg   Germany      
Department: Musical Instruments
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY