Used String Instruments

Most cultures have their own traditional musical instruments. String instruments are among the world’s oldest known instruments.

The harp is the second biggest string instrument in an orchestra. It dates back to 4000 BC when the Egyptians used them in holy places.

A man in a crown kneels in the center of the work, preoccupied with the string instrument delicately constructed in his hands.

One vase illustrates 'The Fair Musician' playing a stringed instrument upon marble steps beside a flower-filled stone urn, while the companion vase, titled 'Sunny Climes', portrays a...

Materials: Fruitwood Signed: Gallé Macklowe Gallery Curator's Notes: The term chanterelle is richly layered: archaically, it denotes a songbird, yet in musical usage it refers to th...

The composition depicts an ethereal female figure playing a stringed instrument, surrounded by two large, stylized winged or angelic forms.

  The poster depicts a young woman dressed in traditional Lithuanian folk costume, holding a stylized string instrument reminiscent of a kanklės, a national instrument associat...

Piero Fornasetti Set of Six Strumenti Musicali Porcelain Plates, Milan, 1950s This set of six Piero Fornasetti porcelain plates is from the Strumenti Musicali series, each plate pr...

Antique Lusterweibchen with Muenchner Kindl, Germany 1900 Item e8318 A finely crafted Lusterweibchen with string instrument carved in wood and finished with warm traditional polychro...

At the center of the composition appears an enigmatic theatrical image: the silhouette of a string instrument, perhaps a violin or cello, emerging dramatically against a vivid crimso...

On the left, a young couple rests at the foot of a tree; the musician, holding a stringed instrument, evokes the leisure of country life.

This painting depicts a man with a string instrument singing. Gee uses pointillism in this painting. 14" x 11" canvas 16 1/4" x 13 1/4" frame Reginald K.

One depicts a musician playing a stringed instrument, another an animated dancer with one arm raised and a leg lifted in mid-step, while the third portrays a bearded musician playing...

The rug seller is shown playing a rebab, an ancient Middle Eastern stringed instrument. He holds the instrument vertically resting on his lap or the floor.

A female dancer stands ready to perform, flanked by musicians playing traditional instruments including drums and bowed string instruments.

To the left, a seated homme du peuple à Athènes strums a stringed instrument, serenading a young fille Athénienne carrying a water jar, her attire marked by a vibrant apron and embro...

Believed to come from the Himalayas, they often watch over the well-being of humans in times of trouble or danger. An ancient Indian string instrument is known as the Kinnari vina. T...

Painting 3: A standing wandering minstrel carries a travel pouch over his shoulder and holds up a plucked stringed instrument. The small bowl in his other hand identifies him as mend...

To his left stands the *Chef des Archers*, resplendent in armor and helmet, while a *Musicien* kneels in the foreground playing a stringed instrument, perhaps an erhu or pipa, adding...

This wood, almost exclusively reserved for high-end cabinetry and the creation of fine musical instruments, is distinguished by its use in the black keys of pianos and certain parts ...

A striking and finely executed portrait painting circa 1880, by renowned Spanish/Italian Orientalist painter; Antonio Rivas (1845–1911), depicting a Moroccan Gnawa musician holding ...

The first plate features musicians and performers, including figures playing traditional instruments such as drums, stringed instruments, and wind instruments, rendered in vivid, har...

At the left, a seated musicien plays a bowed string instrument resembling a rebab, his rhythmic accompaniment providing the melody for the graceful danseuse javanaise beside him.

The plate illustrates musical instruments including lyres and other stringed instruments, weapons, shields, spears, furniture, beds, tables, vessels, decorative architectural objects...

A Chinese paperweight offers hard stone construction with hand painted portrait of a woman playing her string musical instrument, chop mark signed, 20th century Measures - 6"H x 2.2...

Recognizable characters include 詩, meaning poetry; 書, referring to writing or books; 酒, meaning wine; and 琴, referring to a traditional stringed instrument. Together, these words evo...

Bass Player Frog Supporting a vertically oriented stringed instrument with carved f-holes, this figure grounds the ensemble visually and musically, much like a stand-up bass. 7.5 in H

Across the front and side panels, figures in traditional dress are shown engaged in leisure and daily activity: playing stringed instruments, drawing water, conversing beneath trees,...

The rectangular pedestal stands on supports and has architectural decoration; the base of the clock, also rectangular, has vegetal crowns with scrolls enhancing cartouches (with name...

Part of the "Strumenti Musicali" (Musical Instruments) series, each plate features a unique, dense composition of stringed instruments—including lutes, guitars, and mandolins—arrange...

Attributes: Beside the case stands another stringed instrument (an antique guitar or theorbo/lute).

One musician is shown playing a stringed instrument, highlighting the important role of live music in Chinese theatrical productions.

The print depicts a lively musical scene, showing a group of four figures, each engaged with musical instruments. The instruments include trumpets, drums, and various wind and string...

A dramatic, disjunct figural study of a man wearing a checked cap, shown dancing and playing a stringed instrument. This notable modernist and foundational member of the kinetic ar...

She is currently working on a series of transparent stringed instruments.

She is seated gracefully, fully immersed in playing the shamisen, a traditional three-stringed Japanese instrument, with a manuscript of music laid out before her.

The geometric shapes are complemented by the backrest of the chair, reminiscent of the sides of a string instrument, which lends the shapes a musicality, while the isolated bright co...

The composition centers on a young girl seated bare foot on a simple green wooden chair, holding a small stringed instrument across her lap. She wears a softly colored turquoise-gree...

At the heart of the composition, a seated musician plays a traditional stringed instrument, surrounded by figures dressed in regional Mallorcan costumes.

Judging by the concentrated and almost ecstatic facial expression, the attire, and the posture, it can be deduced that it was a musical instrument, probably a plucked string instrume...

One figure is shown seated while playing a traditional stringed instrument, while another gracefully presents an offering to a delicate crane, a symbol of longevity, wisdom, and good...

A very charming representation of a gentlemen sitting on a rocky outcrop playing a stringed instrument as birds and butterflies soar overhead, the whole is surrounded by a 'feigned' ...

The statuette follows the iconography of Apollo Citaredo or Kitharoidos, the representation of the god playing or holding the zither, a plucked string instrument similar to the lyre,...

This vintage whimsical ceramic figure depicts an anthropomorphic monkey musician, seated with one leg crossed casually over the other, cheerfully playing a stringed mandolin-like ins...

The front cover is embellished with an enamel panel depicting two Japanese ladies playing traditional Japanese instruments, the koto (13 stringed zither) and the shamisen (3 stringed...

At the centre of the composition, a graceful female figure sits in a calm, meditative pose, holding a long stringed musical instrument in one hand while delicately holding a lotus in...

Rich brushwork in image of stringed musical instrument within the abstract composition.

In this version, the outer lines of the gate segments are curved to look like the lyre, an ancient stringed musical instrument. The bracelet connects with a heart lock clasp and safe...

At the centre of the composition, a graceful female figure stands playing a stringed musical instrument, dressed in a warm orange and yellow sari.

The violin makers article — covering Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù, and the full Cremonese luthier tradition — will appeal to a dedicated international audience of string players, in...

Abstract woodblock by California Artist Herman Roderick Volz. Figure with stringed musical instrument. Unframed. Acquired directly from the estate of Volz, unsigned, circa 1940s.

Italian Artists, 1630-1750” - Gianluca and Ulisse Bocchi - 2005 This prestigious still life, with its incredible visual impact, depicts an opulent display of precious objects, inc...

The body of the mandolin is embellished with thirty-six pavé set Dutch cut diamonds. The stringed musical instrument is further ornamented with a yellow gold headstock, neck/fret ba...

Original vintage advertising poster for Steinway pianos featuring a great illustration by the German artist Werner Von Axster-Heudtlass (1898-1949) depicting a young lady wearing a f...

These bodies are shaped like lyres — the stringed musical instrument, associated with ancient Greece.

An abstract low relief with a possibly musical motif, the carved marble plaque appears to suggest a stringed instrument. Monogrammed S. G.