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Guitar (chitarra battente)
1725
Jacopo Mosca Cavelli, Italian, active 1720s
Perugia, Italy
Length 93 cm, width 24.9 cm, depth 14.5 cm (Length 36 5/8 in., width 9 13/16 in., depth 5 11/16 in.)
Bloodwood, spruce, ivory, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell
Inscriptions: Inlaid near lower end of belly: IACOBVS MOSCA CAVELLI FECIT; inlaid near upper end of belly: APOC 14 / SICVT CI / THAROEDORVM / CITHARIVM IN CIT / ARISSVIS; handwritten label inside: In Honorem Conceptionis / Be Marie Virginis Corda / Leni pulsate Jacobus Mosca / Cavelli fecit Pisauri fecit / Perusia 1725Classification: Musical instrumentsOn view in the: Musical Instruments GalleryMusic: Passacaglia by Ludovico Roncalli, 1692 (performed by Olav Chris Henriksen)
Museum of Fine Arts, BostonFrank B. Bemis Fund and Museum purchase with funds donated by William and Deborah Elfers, an anonymous donor, Weston Associates, Leo and Gabriella Beranek, Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser, Richard S. Milstein, Esq., Mrs. Robert B. Newman, and Marlowe and Elise Sigal, 2003
Accession number: 2003.76Provenance/Ownership History: Purchased from Alain Moatti of Paris, who purchased the instrument from the Daguerre auction house in Paris on December 14, 2001. The instrument formerly belonged to Baron Salomon de Rothschild (1835-1864) of Paris, and the heraldic devices on the headstock suggest that it may have originally belonged to a member of the Chigi or Pamphilj families of Rome.This object is included in the following Selected Tour(s):
  
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