French Violin Bow
date: label: date made
content: 1909 - 1911
name: label: maker attribution
content: Sartory, Eugene Nicolas
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This bow is attributed to Eugene Nicolas Sartory in Paris, around 1909-1911. It is a violin bow made of a round light reddish-orange Pernambuco stick with an ivory face, a full silver lined ebony frog with pearl slide and eyes with silver rings, and a silver button. The bow is stamped (heavily worn):<p>
label: Description
content: <p>E. SARTORY A PARIS</p>
label: Description
content: <p>A student of the great bowmakers, Charles Peccatte and Alfred Lamy, Eugene Sartory, (1871-1946), is highly celebrated for his work and is regarded as one of the last of the 19th-century French-trained bowmakers. This bow of light Pernambuco is typical of his late output, with a round stick which one frequently finds in his work.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Veterans Administration Hospital
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.73.44
label: accession number
content: 306526
label: catalog number
content: 73.44
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bow
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pernambuco (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: horesehair (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 1/2 in x 29 1/2 in; 2.8575 cm x 1.27 cm x 74.93 cm