French Viola d'amore Bow
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This bow was made by an unknown maker in France, in the 18th century. It is a viola d-amore bow, made of a round beefwood stick, with a transitional head, fluted hand-grip are beginning 7.7 cm from the button and extending to 15.9 cm on the stick, open-faced ivory frog, and a 19th century bone button.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>While it is difficult to be certain how a bow was used in the past, the elongated thinly graduated stick with low frog placement lends this bow well for the gymnastic movement required by the literature and bridge geometry of the viola d’amore.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.69.09
label: accession number
content: 281385
label: catalog number
content: 69.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bow
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: beefwood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: horsehair (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 1/2 in x 28 5/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 1.27 cm x 72.7075 cm