Bass Viola da Gamba
Andreas Jais
early 18th century
Medium
Wood
Dimensions
47 1/4 × 14 5/8 × 9 3/4 in. (120 × 37.1 × 24.8 cm)
Classification
Chordophone-Bowed
Culture
Austrian
Department
Musical Instruments
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Janos Scholz, in memory of his son, Walter Rosen Scholz, and in honor of the Centennial of The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1988
Accession Number
1988.365