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Chinese Costumes – Mandarin, Tartar Lady and Musicians, c.1845
Chinese Costumes – Mandarin, Tartar Lady and Musicians, c.1845

Chinese Costumes – Mandarin, Tartar Lady and Musicians, c.1845

Located in Langweer, NL

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...

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1840s French Used String Instruments

Materials

Paper

Luciano Frigerio unique ebony and marble dining or conference table, Italy 1970s
Luciano Frigerio unique ebony and marble dining or conference table, Italy 1970s

Luciano Frigerio unique ebony and marble dining or conference table, Italy 1970s

By Luciano Frigerio

Located in Chiavari, Liguria

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 ...

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1970s Italian Used String Instruments

Materials

Carrara Marble

Persian Costume Lithographs, Musicians & Figures, Paris c.1888 Set of 3
Persian Costume Lithographs, Musicians & Figures, Paris c.1888 Set of 3

Persian Costume Lithographs, Musicians & Figures, Paris c.1888 Set of 3

Located in Langweer, NL

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

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Late 19th Century French Used String Instruments

Materials

Paper

Javanese Court Scene – Musician, Dancer, and Sultan’s Guard, c.1845
Javanese Court Scene – Musician, Dancer, and Sultan’s Guard, c.1845

Javanese Court Scene – Musician, Dancer, and Sultan’s Guard, c.1845

Located in Langweer, NL

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.

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1840s French Used String Instruments

Materials

Paper

Set of Four Ancient Greek Costume, Arms and Decorative Arts Prints, 1825
Set of Four Ancient Greek Costume, Arms and Decorative Arts Prints, 1825

Set of Four Ancient Greek Costume, Arms and Decorative Arts Prints, 1825

Located in Langweer, NL

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

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1820s French Used String Instruments

Materials

Paper

Mid-20th C. Mexican Hand-Carved Seven-Piece Frog Orchestra, with Carlos Campos
Mid-20th C. Mexican Hand-Carved Seven-Piece Frog Orchestra, with Carlos Campos

Mid-20th C. Mexican Hand-Carved Seven-Piece Frog Orchestra, with Carlos Campos

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

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

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Mid-20th Century Mexican Folk Art Used String Instruments

Materials

Wood

Chinese Hand Painted Hard Stone Paperweight with Woman & Instrument 20thC
Chinese Hand Painted Hard Stone Paperweight with Woman & Instrument 20thC

Chinese Hand Painted Hard Stone Paperweight with Woman & Instrument 20thC

Located in Big Flats, NY

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...

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20th Century Chinese Used String Instruments

Materials

Stone

Pair French Ormolu Mounted Chinoiserie Red Lacquer Commodes, François Boucher
Pair French Ormolu Mounted Chinoiserie Red Lacquer Commodes, François Boucher

Pair French Ormolu Mounted Chinoiserie Red Lacquer Commodes, François Boucher

By François Boucher

Located in New York, NY

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,...

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Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Used String Instruments

Materials

Marble, Ormolu

Table clock with Muse and writers. Bronze, Paris movement. France, 19th century.
Table clock with Muse and writers. Bronze, Paris movement. France, 19th century.

Table clock with Muse and writers. Bronze, Paris movement. France, 19th century.

Located in Madrid, ES

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...

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19th Century French Neoclassical Revival Used String Instruments

Materials

Bronze, Other

Piero Fornasetti Strumenti Musicali Ceramic Plates, Set of Six
Piero Fornasetti Strumenti Musicali Ceramic Plates, Set of Six

Piero Fornasetti Strumenti Musicali Ceramic Plates, Set of Six

By Piero Fornasetti

Located in Downingtown, PA

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

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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Used String Instruments

Materials

Porcelain

Antique China Theatre Scene Sun and Moon Print – Thomas Allom, 1843
Antique China Theatre Scene Sun and Moon Print – Thomas Allom, 1843

Antique China Theatre Scene Sun and Moon Print – Thomas Allom, 1843

Located in Langweer, NL

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

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Mid-19th Century British Used String Instruments

Materials

Paper

An Allegorical Illustration from Anthony Le Grand's The Principles of Philosophy
An Allegorical Illustration from Anthony Le Grand's The Principles of Philosophy

An Allegorical Illustration from Anthony Le Grand's The Principles of Philosophy

Located in Langweer, NL

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...

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1690s Used String Instruments

Materials

Paper

'Dancing Musician', New York, Kinetic Figural, NYMOMA, LACMA, Whitney Museum
'Dancing Musician', New York, Kinetic Figural, NYMOMA, LACMA, Whitney Museum

'Dancing Musician', New York, Kinetic Figural, NYMOMA, LACMA, Whitney Museum

By Ronald Mallory

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

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...

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1970s Expressionist Used String Instruments

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper

Interior with Chair and Geometric Figures
Interior with Chair and Geometric Figures

Interior with Chair and Geometric Figures

By Ev Grüger

Located in Berlin, DE

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...

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1950s Abstract Used String Instruments

Materials

Oil

Women in Blue Kimono Playing Stringed Shamisen, Antique Japanese Woodblock Print
Women in Blue Kimono Playing Stringed Shamisen, Antique Japanese Woodblock Print

Women in Blue Kimono Playing Stringed Shamisen, Antique Japanese Woodblock Print

By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)

Located in Austin, TX

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.

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19th Century Edo Used String Instruments

Materials

Woodcut

Antique Greek Lekythoi with Classical Figures & Lyre Lithograph, 1883
Antique Greek Lekythoi with Classical Figures & Lyre Lithograph, 1883

Antique Greek Lekythoi with Classical Figures & Lyre Lithograph, 1883

Located in Langweer, NL

A nude male figure stands playing a stringed instrument, probably a lyre or kithara, with an animal beside him.

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Late 19th Century German Neoclassical Used String Instruments

Materials

Paper

Magna Graecia Figure of a woman with dwarfism in terracotta
Magna Graecia Figure of a woman with dwarfism in terracotta

Magna Graecia Figure of a woman with dwarfism in terracotta

Located in BARCELONA, ES

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...

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15th Century and Earlier Greco Roman Used String Instruments

Materials

Terracotta

Hollywood Regency Vere Eglomise Chinoiserie Style Commode
Hollywood Regency Vere Eglomise Chinoiserie Style Commode

Hollywood Regency Vere Eglomise Chinoiserie Style Commode

Located in Swedesboro, NJ

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...

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Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Used String Instruments

Materials

Glass

18th Century Rococo Chinoiserie Canvas, Camaïeu Bleu, Circle of Francois Boucher
18th Century Rococo Chinoiserie Canvas, Camaïeu Bleu, Circle of Francois Boucher

18th Century Rococo Chinoiserie Canvas, Camaïeu Bleu, Circle of Francois Boucher

By François Boucher

Located in Cotignac, FR

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' ...

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Mid-18th Century Rococo Used String Instruments

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ancient Roman Apollo Citaredo
Ancient Roman Apollo Citaredo

Ancient Roman Apollo Citaredo

Located in BARCELONA, ES

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,...

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15th Century and Earlier Classical Roman Used String Instruments

Materials

Bronze

Antique Austro-Hungarian Silver and Enamel Cigarette / Card Case
Antique Austro-Hungarian Silver and Enamel Cigarette / Card Case

Antique Austro-Hungarian Silver and Enamel Cigarette / Card Case

Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne

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...

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20th Century Slovenian Used String Instruments

Materials

Silver, Enamel

Victorian 9K Gold Gate Bracelet with Padlock Heart Clasp
Victorian 9K Gold Gate Bracelet with Padlock Heart Clasp

Victorian 9K Gold Gate Bracelet with Padlock Heart Clasp

Located in Venice, CA

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...

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Early 1900s English Victorian Used String Instruments

Materials

Gold, 9k Gold

Coralcello, richly colorful music themed abstraction
Coralcello, richly colorful music themed abstraction

Coralcello, richly colorful music themed abstraction

By C. Dimitri

Located in Brooklyn, NY

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

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2010s Abstract Used String Instruments

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel

Vintage 1966 French Tout l'Univers Magazine — Hachette, Sainte-Chapelle 2C188
Vintage 1966 French Tout l'Univers Magazine — Hachette, Sainte-Chapelle 2C188

Vintage 1966 French Tout l'Univers Magazine — Hachette, Sainte-Chapelle 2C188

Located in Bordeaux, FR

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...

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20th Century Used String Instruments

Materials

Paper

Italian Carved Wood Gold Gilt Trumpeting Angels Beveled Mirror
Italian Carved Wood Gold Gilt Trumpeting Angels Beveled Mirror

Italian Carved Wood Gold Gilt Trumpeting Angels Beveled Mirror

Located in Toledo, OH

Adorned with trumpeting angels and stringed musical instruments. Very nice condition.

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20th Century European Rococo Used String Instruments

Materials

Wood

Still-Life Carpet Tibaldi Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy
Still-Life Carpet Tibaldi Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy

Still-Life Carpet Tibaldi Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

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...

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17th Century Old Masters Used String Instruments

Materials

Oil

Herman Volz Abstract Woodblock Print
Herman Volz Abstract Woodblock Print

Herman Volz Abstract Woodblock Print

By Herman Roderick Volz 1

Located in Fulton, CA

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

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Mid-20th Century American Used String Instruments

Materials

Paper

Antique 1.25 Carat Diamond and 9k Yellow Gold Mandolin Brooch Circa 1890
Antique 1.25 Carat Diamond and 9k Yellow Gold Mandolin Brooch Circa 1890

Antique 1.25 Carat Diamond and 9k Yellow Gold Mandolin Brooch Circa 1890

Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne

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...

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1890s Unknown Used String Instruments

Materials

Diamond, Yellow Gold, Silver

Original Vintage Poster Steinway & Sons Piano Music Tapestry Pianist Art Design
Original Vintage Poster Steinway & Sons Piano Music Tapestry Pianist Art Design

Original Vintage Poster Steinway & Sons Piano Music Tapestry Pianist Art Design

Located in London, GB

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...

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1930s German Used String Instruments

Materials

Paper

Two Large Neoclassical Style Gilt Bronze Sconces
Two Large Neoclassical Style Gilt Bronze Sconces

Two Large Neoclassical Style Gilt Bronze Sconces

Located in London, GB

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

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Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Used String Instruments

Materials

Ormolu, Bronze

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Used String Instruments For Sale on 1stDibs

There is a range of used string instruments for sale on 1stDibs. The range of distinct used string instruments — often made from wood, cord and string — can elevate any home. Used string instruments have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Used string instruments made by Art Deco designers — as well as those associated with Arts and Crafts — are very popular at 1stDibs. Alcoa Aluminum, John Burdick and Hattakitkosol Somchai each produced beautiful used string instruments that are worth considering.

How Much are Used String Instruments?

The average selling price for at 1stDibs is $1,100, while they’re typically $395 on the low end and $22,000 highest priced.