• Lyre Guitar

Lyre Guitar

    • Title: Lyre Guitar
    • Maker: Possibly Joseph Pons (French, born 1776) (probably a son of César Pons)
    • Date: ca. 1805
    • Geography: Paris, France
    • Culture: French
    • Medium: Mahogany, spruce, ebony, brass, nickel-silver, gilding
    • Dimensions: Height: 34 1/4 in. (87 cm)
      Width: 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm)
    • Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
    • Credit Line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1998
    • Object Number: 1998.121