bow
Datemid 19th-early 20th Century
Inventory Number1997-1-0940
ClassificationMusical Instrument Bow
Subject
Cultural Region
Dimensions3 x 70 x 2 cm (1 3/16 x 27 9/16 x 13/16 in.)
box: 5.7 × 77.8 × 28.6 cm (2 1/4 × 30 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
box: 5.7 × 77.8 × 28.6 cm (2 1/4 × 30 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
Material
DescriptionA bow, for playing a stringed instrument. The stick and frog appear to be ebony, and the hair is light-colored horsehair. The screw handle, frog and tip have brass accents, and the frog has a decorative inlay panel as well. The strings are not loose, and are fairly well attached at the frog and tip. The bow has loosened wrapping and no pad.
Signedunsigned
FunctionWooden bow for playing stringed instrument. Also used in physics demonstrations to incite vibrations in Chladni plates.
Harmanus van Deyl
Date: 1807
Accessories: 2 objectives; 2 eye lenses for a fixed field lens; 1 Lieberkühn; frogplate; bull's eye; stage forceps; spring stage; live box; hand lens; 2 tweezers; 2 boxes with 59 specimen slides; glass disk; black disk; "fish" tube with wire; ivory box of mica cover slips; 5 glass slides; 3 lenses; 2 keys.
Object number: 2002-1-0075a
Claude-Siméon Passemant
Date: 1749-1769
Accessories: ocular; objectives (7); bull's eye condenser; Lieberkühn for stage mounting; cone diaphragm; spring frame for slides; frog plate; stage forceps; large and small black and white disks (2); round micrometer slide with fine wire screen; low-power lens; black aperture disk; brass slider for 4 specimens; ivory slides--rectangular (6); ivory slides--circular (2); brass slide with aperture to hold circular ivory slides; boxes (2) of round ivory slides (40 in total).
Object number: 1182
John Pass
Date: after 1804
Object number: 1998-1-1644
Baumann
Date: 1775-1800
Accessories: 6 objectives: 1-6; 1 eyepiece; 1 partial objective; a lieberkuhn in a brass box; 2 wooden sliders; 1 ivory slider; ivory box with cover slips and springs; 2 spring stages (slider holders); cup diaphragm; wheel diaphragm; frog plate; 2 live boxes; tweezers; steel tweezers with pin; magnifying glass; 2 ivory rings; horizontal box.
Object number: 1253