Violin
Also titled Viool
c. 1705 - c. 1710
- Medium
- ivory, earthenware, tin glaze, faience, iron (metal), intestine, wood (plant material), steen (materiaal)
- Classification
- violin
- Dimensions
- length 64 cm x width 23 cm x depth 10 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the heirs of J.F. Loudon, The Hague
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This tin-glazed earthenware violin cannot be played, for it is a decorative object. When the collector John Loudon purchased it for a record 1500 guilders in 1876, this violin was considered to be the absolute masterpiece of Delft earthenware. The modelling and painted decoration certainly make it an exceptional object.
