Rebec
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This rebec was made by an unknown maker in Italy, 19th century. It is made of a curved, flat, one-piece table of spruce, with f-holes and an ornamental rose, body and neck in lute-style, ribs in nine pieces separated with ivory strip, crude pegbox of 19th-century manufacture. heavily ornamented fingerboard and table. This composite instrument in teardrop shape is heavily ornamented with ivory, mother-of-pearl, black pastiche filler and celluloid (simulating ivory). This rebec probably passed through the hands of Leopoldo Franciolini.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Leopoldo Franciolini (1844–1920) was an Italian antique dealer who flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is remembered as a fraudster who sold faked and altered historical musical instruments.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Made available through the Cooper Union Museum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.60.1349
label: accession number
content: 227687
label: catalog number
content: 60.1349
label: collector/donor number
content: 1921-32-12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: rebec
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, spruce (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 5/8 in x 5 1/16 in x 3 in; 54.9275 cm x 12.85875 cm x 7.62 cm