Indian 25-String Instrument
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Indian-style (19/20th Century) 25 string wood instrument with bird head design
Indian 25-String Instrument
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Indian-style (19/20th Century) 25 string wood instrument with bird head design
G.A. Pfretzschner Violin in Case
Located in High Point, NC
The Pfretzschner family operated as major dealers and makers of fine string instruments and bows in Markneukirchen, which was the epicenter of German violin making.
Ebony, Maple, Spruce
Set of Five Spanish Turquoise and Silver Miniature Musical Instruments
Located in London, GB
The ensemble consists of five string instruments: a classical guitar, a lyre-shaped guitar with two feet, a bell-shaped ukulele (tiple), a cello, and a free-standing harp.
Silver
SS Stewart Orchestra Banjo
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
The SS Stewart Orchestra banjo is a rare five-string instrument made in 1892, featuring a chrome drum and a carved cloverleaf motif.
Canvas, Wood
19th Century Bronze Musician Sculpture
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A bronze figure of a musician. He is playing a string instrument.
Bronze
Blanc de Chine White Glazed Seated Musician Figure
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A blanc de chine white glazed ceramic figure depicting a seated musician holding a stringed instrument raised on a rectangular plinth base.
Ceramic
Antique Staffordshire Troubadour Man & King Charles Spaniel Figurine 13"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique 19th century Staffordshire porcelain flatback figurine in the shape of a man / minstrel or troubadour, holding a guitar / stringed instrument, seated on a mossy wall with a r...
Porcelain
$204Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Engraving of Archangel Michael and an Arab Moor Playing Instrument, 1698
Located in Langweer, NL
Untitled print of an Arab Moor man playing a stringed instrument 105: Mural in St. Marc's church: the left a painting of the Archangel Michael, said to be painted by S.
Paper
An Antique French Miniature Model of a Cello Complete with Original Case and Bow
Located in San Francisco, CA
The case contains a note in French which indicates this model was an apprentice piece made by a French luthier (string instrument maker). The note appears to have enhanced aging.
Ebony, Maple
Antique Boulle Style Inlaid Brass Ormolu Mount Ebonized Writing Table Desk
Located in Chicago, IL
Table top is decorated with intricate leafy elements, accented with birds, butterflies and antique string instruments. Circa Late 19th Century Dimensions H 31" W 30.5" D 55"
Brass
$28,000 / set
Pair KPM Porcelain Plaques After Franz Lefler
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in New York, NY
Large 19th century KPM plaques hand-painted by Dittrich after the original paintings by the Czech master, Franz Lefler (1831-1898), depicting children singing and playing string inst...
Porcelain
18th Century Romantic Oil Painting of Couples by a Stream, Circa 1730
By Jean-Baptiste Pater
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
The two men serenade the women with their stringed instruments. The subject matter and style of painting was common throughout the 18th century in France/Europe and this painting bea...
Canvas
Original Vintage Poster Teppichhaus Schuster St Gallen & Zurich Orient Carpets
By Emile Cardinaux
Located in London, GB
Original vintage carpet advertising poster for Teppichhaus Schuster & Co St Gallen & Zurich Switzerland featuring an Oriental style design depicting a lady playing music on a stringe...
Paper
Large Sèvres-style Porcelain Charger
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Norwood, NJ
Father figure playing a stringed instrument, in the presence of other members of his family.
Porcelain
Art Nouveau Modernist Angel Musician Enamel Pendant Necklace Sterling Silver
Located in New York, NY
THE ANGEL PLAYS A GUITAR, VIOLIN, LYRE, BANJO OR OTHER STRING INSTRUMENT. SURROUNDING THE ANGEL IS AN EXQUISITE HALO IN BLUE AND GREY ENAMEL.
Enamel, Silver, Sterling Silver
Ceramic vessel by the artist Mario Dario Grandi
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
The main motif is a hand-painted figurative decoration that encircles the body, depicting two male figures, one playing a flute and the other a stringed instrument, using earth tones...
Ceramic
$10,232Sale Price|25% Off
Large Carrara marble by Barrias, The Little Musician
By Louis Ernest Barrias
Located in Paris, FR
He is seated on a cushion with pompoms resting on a pedestal, playing a three-stringed instrument. It stands on a base measuring 19 cm by 19 cm.
Carrara Marble
Italian 18th century Scagliola and Wrought Iron coffee table, circa 1723
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
The intricately detailed top showcases various game cards, dice, a string instrument, a script containing a composer, and various other artist elements.
Wrought Iron
$2,500Sale Price|57% Off
Large Antique Anglo-Indian Painting on Woven Fabric Portraying A Female Dancer
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
The painting is done in the Anglo-Indian style depicting several women watching a female dancing on a carpet, presumably at an outdoor bazaar, with a male musician playing a stringed...
Fabric
Figural Repousse Tavern Scene Sterling Silver Cigarette Case 2.8 Troy Oz c1900
Located in Big Flats, NY
The detailed relief work depicts a lively tavern gathering, with several figures engaged in various activities, including playing a stringed instrument and drinking. The craftsmanshi...
Sterling Silver
Two Atkinson Bros Stained Glass Windows Depicting Angels Playing Instruments
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
These trapezoidal shaped windows detail angels playing stringed instruments – one a violin and the other a lute – dressed in swathes of gold and white before deep red glass backdrops.
Lead
Italian majolica pottery figure of traditional Pulcinella, hand modelled in clay
Located in Central England, GB
He is holding an early stringed instrument, eager to entertain. This decorative piece is in good original condition.
Clay
A Large Qajar Oil Painting With Female Portrait And Floral Triumph, Late 19th Ce
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, heightened in gold, large vertical panel cut in the shape of ogival arch, depicting a central portrait roundel with a Westernised Qajar maiden wearing a white veil and...
Paint
Antique Javanese Prints – Gamelan Instruments & Wayang Puppets – c.1860
Located in Langweer, NL
The first plate, titled Muziek-Instrumenten (Gamelan), depicts a wide range of traditional Javanese instruments, carefully illustrated and labeled. Included are gongs suspended from ...
Paper
French 19th Century Painted Trumeau Mirror
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
To the lower left one observes a finely dressed lady playing a type of string instrument for her beau, leaning toward her with keen interest.
Canvas, Glass, Mirror, Wood, Paint
Shanghai Deco Full Moon Qin Table & Stool Set, c. 1930s
Located in Chicago, IL
Dated to the 1930s during China's brief Republic Period (1912-1949), the set provided a surface for playing the qin, an ancient stringed instrument associated with scholarly refineme...
Elm
A Large 19th Century Vienna Porcelain Vase w/ Ormolu Mount, Signed Wagner
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
The lyre is one of the oldest known stringed instruments, originally produced in the ancient river civilizations to honor the gods.
Bronze
$1,178Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Framed Woodblock Print, Japanese Art, Edo, Ukiyo-e, Kunisada, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
Exceptional Edo period woodblock print, in the striking ukiyo-e style Displays a desirable aged patina and in good order throughout Set within a tasteful later frame, with blue card ...
Glass, Paper
Hindu Sacred Musicians – Satadéven and Vaïche Navin, 1806
Located in Langweer, NL
On the left, Satadéven is depicted standing barefoot against a mountainous backdrop, carrying a long-necked string instrument across his shoulders and holding a small bowl in one hand.
Paper
Pair of Large Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze and Samson Porcelain Candelabra
By Samson & Cie
Located in London, GB
The porcelain figures are that of a man and woman playing musical instruments, wistfully gazing towards each other while they stroll and play; he plays a variation on the bagpipes, p...
Ormolu
"Still Life with Flowers, gloves and walking stick"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The subtly arranged gloves, draped fabrics, and a stringed instrument resting on a chair suggest a moment frozen in time, evoking themes of nostalgia, refinement, and artistic intros...
Canvas, Oil
$223Sale Price / set|20% Off
1844 Vibrant Indian Cultural Prints: Musician and Dancer Lithographs
Located in Langweer, NL
Indou jouant du Pennak: - Instrument: The musician appears to be using a stringed instrument, possibly a type of traditional Indian lute or sitar.
Paper
$3,160Sale Price|20% Off
“The Odalisques” 19th Century Orientalist Oil on Canvas, Signed Raupp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This richly colored scene depicts two resting maidens by a window, one playing the baglama (a traditional stringed instrument) while the other listens in repose.
Wood
$760Sale Price|20% Off
"Candy Seller" Japanese Woodblock on Rice Paper
By Utagawa Yoshiiku
Located in Soquel, CA
"Candy Seller" (飴売りうずまつ 市村羽左衛門) Japanese Woodblock on Rice Paper This piece depicts Ichimura Uzaemon as the Candy Peddler Uzumatsu. He is playing a stringed instrument (the shamisen...
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
$395 / set
Three Books on Violins and Violin Makers
By John H. Fairfield, Willibaldd Leo Frh-v-Lütgendorff, Dirk J. Balfoort
Located in valatie, NY
A biography of Antonio Stradivari (1644- 1737) the Italian crafter of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps.
Paper
Froment Meurice Renaissance Revival, Saint Cecilia Pearl and Ruby Gold Brooch
By François-Désiré Froment-Meurice
Located in London, GB
Executed in the Renaissance Revival taste for which the maker became renowned, the brooch centres upon a finely sculpted silver figure of Saint Cecilia (patron saint of music) shown ...
Natural Pearl, Ruby, Yellow Gold
A Very Rare Wicker Rocker, Musical Motif, Wakefield Rattan, C.1890s
By Wakefield Rattan Company
Located in Nashua, NH
A very rare musical string instrument style wicker rocker by the Wakefield Rattan Company, Wakefield Massachusetts, C. 1890s in wonderful condition.
Wood, Cane, Wicker
1930s Ivory Music Note Design Antique American Hooked Rug 3' x 7'5" Carpet
Located in New York, NY
The upper field features a stylized depiction of a stringed instrument's fretboard, rendered with a distinct, minimalist approach that borders on geometric rugs.
Wool
Japanese Meiji Han Koto with Maki-e Lacquer Decoration
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare Japanese Koto made from carved Paulownia wood and lavishly decorated with lacquer Maki-e circa late 19th century of Meiji Period (1868-1912). The facade of the stringed instru...
Wood
Exceptional Neoclassical Louis XVI Style Marquetry Table à Ouvrage, 19th Century
Located in Berlin, DE
It depicts a female figure—most likely a Muse of Music—playing a stringed instrument, inlaid in fine precious woods that have been expertly sand-shaded.
Boxwood, Kingwood, Rosewood, Satinwood
Italian School Angel Musician Painting on Panel - Gothic Arch Gold Background
Located in SANT ADRIÀ DE BESÒS, ES
This refined antique devotional panel depicts a serene angel musician, delicately playing a string instrument while standing on a stylized cloud.
Wood
An Assembled Group of Seventeen Sitzendorf Porcelain Monkey Band Figures.
Located in Buchanan, MI
He was a collector of all violin and string instrument related objects. His vast collections of objects included unique and special violins and figurines.
Porcelain
James Brown British Impressionist oil painting, Lucien Pissarro circle
Located in Harkstead, GB
His first interest was in music and he was an authority on string instruments and the originator of the practice of polychordia and published a folio of sheet music on the subject.
Canvas
Victorian Sterling Silver Lyre Candlesticks by Harrison Brothers, 1899
By Harrison Brothers & George Howson 1
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The upper portion of the stringed instrument is surmounted with a swept oval capital, encompassed with concave fluted decoration accented with a reed decorated girdle.
Silver, Sterling Silver
Pair of Monumental Meiji Period Japanese Porcelain Vases with Carved Consoles
Located in ALHAURÍN EL GRANDE, Malaga
One of the principal scenes depicts a gentleman playing the koto, Japan's traditional thirteen-stringed instrument, a subject closely associated with refinement, culture, and the ari...
Ceramic
Pair of Antique Terracotta Statues, Paris, circa 1880
By Gossin Frères Manufactory
Located in Dallas, TX
A vielle à roue is a string instrument that produces sound when a crank is turned.
Terracotta
Vintage Khotan Rug in Red with Rare Pictorial Design - Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Central to the design is a flowering prunus branch emerging from a geometric vase, flanked by precisely depicted cultural implements including a penjing (bonsai) container, stringed ...
Wool
Antique George V Sterling Silver Lyre Candlesticks by Ellis Greenberg
By Ellis Jacob Greenberg
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The upper portion of the stringed instrument is surmounted with a swept oval capital, encompassed with embossed concave batwing decoration.
Sterling Silver
$2,064Sale Price|20% Off
French Château Landscape Jacquard Woven Tapestry with Carriage & Courtly Scene
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Miami, FL
In the foreground, symbols of refinement and cultivated leisure rest upon a balustrade: a stringed instrument reminiscent of those used in courtly chamber music, draped velvet textil...
Wool, Cotton
Art Nouveau Emile Gallé "Cherry Blossom" Table
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
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...
Fruitwood
French Aubusson Tapestry Royal Manufacture 18th century – Pastoral scene – 1672
By Royal Manufacture of Aubusson
Located in Paris, FR
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.
Wool, Silk
After Bergman Cold-painted Orientalist Market Stall Diorama Lamp
By Franz Xaver Bergman (Bergmann)
Located in San Francisco, CA
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.
Spelter
Mid-19th-Century Munich School, Nocturnal Alpine Scene With Woman Resting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
Under her right hand, a zither rests. This flat stringed instrument was generally used to accompany a domestic setting.
Oil, Canvas
Antique Javanese Costume & Dance Prints – Bedajas and Ronggeng – c.1860
Located in Langweer, NL
A female dancer stands ready to perform, flanked by musicians playing traditional instruments including drums and bowed string instruments.
Paper
Greek Costumes – Athenians and Palicars of Selléide, c.1845
Located in Langweer, NL
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...
Paper
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...
Paper
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...
Paper
Northeast Indian Santal Carved Wood Sarangi Musical Instrument
Located in Seattle, WA
Northeast Indian wood stringed musical instrument, sarangi, from the Santal tribal regions of Bihar.
Wood, Pigment
Italian Renaissance Style Carved Walnut Desk, 19th Century
Located in Asheville, NC
Unusually carved Italian Renaissance style desk, central fall panel of band of putti playing string instruments, fitted interior, prospect door with carved green man, slant fall fron...
Walnut
Japanese Court Musician
Located in San Francisco, CA
Hand has a hole for a missing instrument, probably a samisen, a Japanese traditional string instrument.
Wood
Figures in a Landscape Attributed to Pater
Located in Vancouver, BC
The two men serenade the women with their stringed instruments. The subject matter and style of painting was common throughout the 18th century in France and Europe, and this paintin...
Oil
Unavailable
H 50.4 in W 35.83 in
Original Vintage Poster Teppichhaus Schuster St Gallen & Zurich Orient Carpets
By Emile Cardinaux
Located in London, GB
Original vintage carpet advertising poster for Teppichhaus Schuster & Co St Gallen & Zurich Switzerland featuring an Oriental style design depicting a lady playing music on a stringe...
Paper
Marble Bust of Sapho
Located in Woodbury, CT
She has a strap over her right shoulder and continuing over the stringed instrument, the neck of which is broken and missing.
Marble
Unavailable
H 15.5 in W 14 in D 2 in
Large Decorative Islamic Qajar/Ottoman Underglaze Moulded Pottery Tile
Located in Haslemere, GB
A musician plays the Tar (stringed instrument), while another holds the symbolic flask and goblet and the others various percussive instruments.
Ceramic, Clay
Pair of 12th Century Rajasthan Red Sandstone Figures
Located in Mosman Park, AU
5170 A very finely carved pair of 12th century Rajasthan red sandstone figures depicting two celestial musicians. One holding a stringed instrument with head turned to the right and ...
Sandstone
Fireback, Second Empire
Located in Gembloux, BE
I the center is the 'Lyre', a string-instrument known for its use in Greek classical Antiquity and later periods.
Iron
Antique Victorian Paste Lyre Heart Locket 9 Carat Gold Back and Front
Located in Lancaster, Lancashire
A beautiful antique Victorian Locket C. 1900, set with six red and seven white Paste stones set out in the shape of a lovely Lyre which is a classical Greek string instrument and sym...
9k Gold
Still life with musical instruments (pair)
Located in Zürich, CH
Proximity to Bergamo Cremona, an important craft center for the manufacture of stringed instruments, naturally disposed the Bergamo artists to specialize in still lifes on a musical ...
Canvas, Oil
Unavailable
H 73.23 in W 16.93 in D 1.19 in
Wunderkammer, The Dance of the Skeletons, by Tanomura Chokunyu (1814-1909)
Located in PARIS, FR
The Dance of the Skeletons, by Tanomura Chokunyu (1814-1909) This Japanese ink and pigment painting on paper, mounted on a scroll with silk borders, depicts the macabre and captivati...
Paper
Pair of Bronze Table Lamps in the Form of Classical Grecian Figures
Located in Suffolk, GB
The lamps consist of two Grecian female figures both dressed in Classical headdress and robes, one holding a chelys which was a stringed instrument, the common lyre of the ancient Gr...
Bronze
Unavailable
H 24.41 in W 19.1 in
18th century portrait of the German Flautist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz
By Arthur Devis
Located in Bath, Somerset
At the completion of his apprenticeship Quantz was able to play most of the principle string instruments and the oboe and trumpet. In 1716 Quantz accepted an invitation to join the...
Canvas, Oil
Unavailable
H 39.45 in W 52.6 in D 3.94 in
HERMANNUS COLLENIUS - A Portrait of an Elegant Couple Making Music
By Hermannus Collenius
Located in Hilversum, NL
Highlights are reflected in the gilt birdcage, the auricular mouldings of the picture fames, in the glass and metalware and in the smoothly polished wooden surface of the large strin...
Canvas
Rare Chinese Zither, China, Late 19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Rare Chinese zither or ghzheng is a traditional Chinese plucked string musical instrument of the family of table zithers - Guzheng has been introduced in other countries and has bec...
Chinese Antique Scholar's Chest, Bookcase
Located in SOMIS, CA
Lower left front of the chest depicts a scholar in the bamboo forest playing the string music instrument Gu Zhen, an expression of sophistication.
Wood
Russian Antique Brooch Mandoline or Domra with Enamel, 1910s
Located in Antwerp, BE
Period: ca. 1910 Source of inspiration: Musical instruments Theme: Mandoline, or perhaps more likely the four string domra.
Diamond, Pearl, White Diamond, Ruby, 14k Gold, Rose Gold, Silver, Gold
Sold
H 1 in W 13.5 in D 19.25 in
Antique Orientalist Oil Painting Depicting Female Playing Stringed Instrument
Located in New York, NY
Our antique oil on canvas from the Orientalist period, 13 1/2 by 19 1/4 inches, depicts a female playing a small stringed instrument, wearing yellow scarf with blue, red and green st...
Canvas
Sold
H 31.75 in W 9.25 in D 5 in
Antique Victorian Tiger Maple Violin and Case, Salvatore Durro, 19th Century
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Victorian tiger maple violin and wood case with mother of pearl inlaid bow, Salvatore Durro, Antonio Stradivarius, label as photographed, string instrument, 19th century M...
Wood, Maple
19th Century French Hand-Painted Faience Miniature Violin
By Rouen
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this beautiful stringed instrument in a music room or on a bookshelf for a touch of old world elegance.
Faience
Sold
H 6.5 in W 3.15 in D 4.34 in
Set of Five Antique Viennese Miniature Silver and Turquoise Instruments
Located in London, GB
The set comprises four stringed instruments and a grand piano. The stringed instruments are all set on square turquoise plinths.
Silver
Pair of Carved Wood Asian Geishas Sculptures
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Lovely female sculptures of Geishas, one plays a flute while the other strums a string instrument. Smaller of the pair is 39.5 H, 13 W.
Framed 18th Century French Wallpaper, Exotic Scene
Located in Doylestown, PA
soldier on horseback and a maiden playing a stringed instrument. Behind glass.
Paper
Sold
H 16 in W 17 in D 8 in
Antique Italian Cared Marble Portrait Bust of Boy with Gambusi by A. Cipriani
By Adolfo Cipriani
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Italian carved marble portrait sculpture depicts bust of a boy with his gambusi (musical guitar-like string instrument), signed on back A. Ciprianin, circa 1880 Measures: ...
Marble
A Japanese Momento Mori Ivory Carving of Musicians
Located in Austin, TX
Two play horns, while one strums a stringed instrument. They all stand on a raised ivory platform with carved geometric designs.
Chinese Female Attendant with Qin Bronze Waist Charm
Located in Chicago, IL
Originally cherished as a lucky waist charm, this figure of a robed female musician holds a qin, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument representing the union of heaven, earth and...
Bronze, Steel
Pair of Franz Bergman Cold Painted Gypsy Musicians, 19th Century
By Franz Bergmann
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A delightful pair antique Austrian cold painted bronze figures of gypsy musicians both lying on their sides, a woman wearing a skirt and headdress and holding a tambourine and a man ...