Musician tile: viola da gamba

Mercer, Henry Chapman (1856-1930)

Item type:

decorative art

Date of creation:

1915

Height:

15.9 cm  (6 1/4 in.)

Width:

13.0 cm  (5 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

glazed earthenware

Description

A seated man, wearing a crown and aristocratic attire, playing a viola da gamba (or possibly cello)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viola da gamba [3604] (instrument has four strings (only three pegs visible in image); f-holes are left and right-facing C shapes; the bow curves outward)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5594