© British Museum
Gittern
Artist: Medieval
Location: British Museum
Date: circa 1330
Materials: wood
Dimensions: 62 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £2,500 (Total: £44,000)
Review number: 2137 (1963)
Provenance:
By the eighteenth century belonged to the Duke of Dorset; R.Bremmer; by 1874 on loan from the Earl of Warwick to the South Kensington Museum.
Description:
Four stringed instrument - precursor to the guitar. Body and neck carved with naturalistic foliage, animals and grotesque figures. A silver plate covers the turning pegs, engraved with the arms of Queen Elizabeth and the badge of the Earl of Leicester.
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