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Antique Orientalist Oil Painting Depicting Female Playing Stringed Instrument
Located in New York, NY
playing a small stringed instrument, wearing yellow scarf with blue, red and green stripes, held in place
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Late 19th Century Antique String Instrument

Materials

Canvas

19th Century Bronze Musician Sculpture
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A bronze figure of a musician. He is playing a string instrument.
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19th Century French Antique String Instrument

Materials

Bronze

Antique Orchestra Chair with Lyre Back
Located in Denton, TX
height adjustment. Leather seat was replaced at one time. This chair was probably used for large string
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19th Century European Neoclassical Revival Antique String Instrument

Materials

Brass

Antique Orchestra Chair with Lyre Back
Antique Orchestra Chair with Lyre Back
H 32.25 in W 15.5 in D 14.75 in
Antique Staffordshire Troubadour Man & King Charles Spaniel Figurine 13"
Located in Dayton, OH
troubadour, holding a guitar / stringed instrument, seated on a mossy wall with a red and white dog, a King
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19th Century Victorian Antique String Instrument

Materials

Porcelain

Antique 6-String Mahogany, Rosewood & Pine Ukrainian National National Balalaika
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique 6-String Mahogany, Rosewood And Pine Ukrainian National Balalaika C1920 Measures - 26 5/8
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Early 20th Century Antique String Instrument

Materials

Mahogany, Rosewood, Pine

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
Category

1690s Antique String Instrument

Materials

Paper

19th Century Asian Wood Lacquer Musical Instrument Pipa with Dragon Lion Pattern
Located in 景德镇市, CN
19th Century Asian Wood Lacquer Pipa is a remarkable antique stringed instrument, meticulously
Category

19th Century Antique String Instrument

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Mantel Clock in Malachite, 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
by a fully sculpted figure of a young woman playing a lyre, with another stringed instrument on the
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19th Century Antique String Instrument

Materials

Malachite, Bronze

Antique Mantel Clock in Malachite, 19th Century
Mantel Clock in Malachite, 19th Century
H 16.93 in W 11.82 in D 3.94 in
Chinese Lacquered Qin Scroll Table
Located in Chicago, IL
ancient stringed instrument. Additional Dimensions: Table Apron to Floor: 26.75"H
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Early 20th Century Chinese Minimalist Antique String Instrument

Materials

Elm

Antique Chinese Lacquered Qin Scroll Table
Chinese Lacquered Qin Scroll Table
H 27.75 in W 66 in D 10.25 in
Pair KPM Porcelain Plaques After Franz Lefler
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in New York, NY
master, Franz Lefler (1831-1898), depicting children singing and playing string instruments. Measures
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19th Century German Romantic Antique String Instrument

Materials

Porcelain

Pair KPM Porcelain Plaques After Franz Lefler
Pair KPM Porcelain Plaques After Franz Lefler
H 7.88 in W 13.25 in D 0.25 in
Pair of 18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Portraits Paintings, 1770s
By Giuseppe Angeli
Located in Vicoforte, IT
two splendid male figures, a hunter with his dog and a player with a stringed instrument. Paintings of
Category

1770s Antique String Instrument

Materials

Canvas, Oil

18th Century Painting Showing Figures in a Landscape Attributed to Pater
By Jean-Baptiste Pater
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
women with their stringed instruments. The subject matter and style of painting was common throughout
Category

Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique String Instrument

Materials

Canvas

Original Vintage Poster Teppichhaus Schuster St Gallen & Zurich Orient Carpets
By Emile Cardinaux
Located in London, GB
Switzerland featuring an Oriental style design depicting a lady playing music on a stringed instrument and a
Category

1920s Swiss Antique String Instrument

Materials

Paper

Art Nouveau Modernist Angel Musician Enamel Pendant Necklace Sterling Silver
Located in New York, NY
, MODERNIST PENDANT HAS AN EXQUISITE IMAGE OF AN ANGEL PLAYING A MUSICAL STRINGED INSTRUMENT. THE DESIGN OF
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19th Century Spanish Art Nouveau Antique String Instrument

Materials

Enamel, Silver, Sterling Silver

Large Sèvres-style Porcelain Charger
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Norwood, NJ
stringed instrument, in the presence of other members of his family. Cobalt blue with tooled gilt border
Category

Late 19th Century French Antique String Instrument

Materials

Porcelain

Large Carrara marble by Barrias, The Little Musician
By Louis Ernest Barrias
Located in Paris, FR
young musician. He is seated on a cushion with pompoms resting on a pedestal, playing a three-stringed
Category

1880s French Antique String Instrument

Materials

Carrara Marble

Italian 18th century Scagliola and Wrought Iron coffee table, circa 1723
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
cards, dice, a string instrument, a script containing a composer, and various other artist elements
Category

18th Century Italian Baroque Antique String Instrument

Materials

Wrought Iron

Large Antique Anglo-Indian Painting on Woven Fabric Portraying A Female Dancer
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
, with a male musician playing a stringed instrument. The painting is highly detailed showing intricate
Category

Late 19th Century English Anglo-Indian Antique String Instrument

Materials

Fabric

A Large Qajar Oil Painting With Female Portrait And Floral Triumph, Late 19th Ce
Located in London, GB
instrument, possibly a Persian lute (barbat), around her neck a string of pearls, her portrait encased within
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Late 19th Century Asian Antique String Instrument

Materials

Paint

English Regency Gilt Figural and Ebonized Dital Harp, Maker E. Light, Circa 1815
Located in Charleston, SC
English Regency gilt stenciled figural and floral ebonized dital harp signed by maker Edward Light. Retailed at Srohl Foley place London, Early 19th century.
Category

1810s English Regency Antique String Instrument

Materials

Giltwood, Ebony, Wood, String

Persian Manuscript Page - Garden Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
one tuning a stringed instrument. Behind these three stand another two men. Behind the seated man
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Late 18th Century Persian Islamic Antique String Instrument

Materials

Gold Leaf

Exceptional Napoleon III Style Inlaid Chest With Musical Theme
Located in Bridgeport, CT
musical notes, crossed recorders, stringed instruments and horns all in fine contrasting wood inlay. The
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Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique String Instrument

Materials

Stone, Metal

French 19th Century Painted Trumeau Mirror
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
left one observes a finely dressed lady playing a type of string instrument for her beau, leaning
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19th Century French Other Antique String Instrument

Materials

Canvas, Glass, Mirror, Wood, Paint

French 19th Century Painted Trumeau Mirror
French 19th Century Painted Trumeau Mirror
H 54 in W 29.25 in D 1.88 in
A Large 19th Century Vienna Porcelain Vase w/ Ormolu Mount, Signed Wagner
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
paneling, referencing the 19th century. The lyre is one of the oldest known stringed instruments
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19th Century Austrian Louis XVI Antique String Instrument

Materials

Bronze

"Still Life with Flowers, gloves and walking stick"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
, suggesting a recently departed figure or an intimate domestic setting. The stringed instrument represents
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Antique String Instrument

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pair of Large Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze and Samson Porcelain Candelabra
By Samson & Cie
Located in London, GB
stringed instrument. They stand 68cm in height and bear the Samson mark to the underside. Beautiful pieces
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique String Instrument

Materials

Ormolu

1844 Vibrant Indian Cultural Prints: Musician and Dancer Lithographs
Located in Langweer, NL
musical heritage. 1. Indou jouant du Pennak: - Instrument: The musician appears to be using a stringed
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1840s Antique String Instrument

Materials

Paper

Wunderkammer, The Dance of the Skeletons, by Tanomura Chokunyu (1814-1909)
Located in PARIS, FR
string instrument. Above the scene, a poem accompanies the artist’s signature and seals. Tanomura
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Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Antique String Instrument

Materials

Paper

Three Books on Violins and Violin Makers
By Willibaldd Leo Frh-v-Lütgendorff, Dirk J. Balfoort, John H. Fairfield
Located in valatie, NY
(1644- 1737) the Italian crafter of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and
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Early 20th Century German Antique String Instrument

Materials

Paper

Japanese Meiji Han Koto with Maki-e Lacquer Decoration
Located in Atlanta, GA
circa late 19th century of Meiji Period (1868-1912). The facade of the stringed instrument features
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Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique String Instrument

Materials

Wood

Vintage Khotan Rug in Red with Rare Pictorial Design - Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
by precisely depicted cultural implements including a penjing (bonsai) container, stringed instrument
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1920s Turkish Antique String Instrument

Materials

Wool

Victorian Sterling Silver Lyre Candle Holders
By Harrison Brothers & George Howson 1
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
stringed instrument is surmounted with a swept oval capital, encompassed with concave fluted decoration
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19th Century English Victorian Antique String Instrument

Materials

Silver, Sterling Silver

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
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Late 19th Century Austrian Antique String Instrument

Materials

Porcelain

Pair of Antique Terracotta Statues, Paris, circa 1880
By Gossin Frères Manufactory
Located in Dallas, TX
vielle à roue is a string instrument that produces sound when a crank is turned. The crank rotates a
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Late 19th Century French Antique String Instrument

Materials

Terracotta

Antique Ellis & Co. 1920s Sterling Silver Lyre Candle Holders
By Ellis Jacob Greenberg
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
of the stringed instrument is surmounted with a swept oval capital, encompassed with embossed concave
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1920s British Antique String Instrument

Materials

Sterling Silver

Large Exceptional Japanese Ceramic Moriage Moon Flask Vase Meiji Kinkozan
By Kinkozan
Located in Atlanta, GA
), hand-chimes, and Zither (a stringed instrument) and other smaller Buddhist symbols. The sided are
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique String Instrument

Materials

Ceramic

18th century portrait of the German Flautist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz
By Arthur Devis
Located in Bath, Somerset
Merseburg. At the completion of his apprenticeship Quantz was able to play most of the principle string
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18th Century English School Antique String Instrument

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique Louis XVI French Demilune Marquetry Chest of Drawers Stamped Tondeur
Located in Firenze, IT
marquetry is inspired by the theme of music, allegories with both wind and string instruments, sheet music
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique String Instrument

Materials

Bronze

1927 Gelas Double-Table Mandolin, Numbered (5947) and Stamped
Located in Ixelles, BE
in plucked string instruments. 2. Career: • Innovations: In the 1920s, he introduced the double
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1920s French Antique String Instrument

Materials

Other

Table clock with Muse and writers. Bronze, Paris movement. France, 19th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
blued bronze, dressed in a tunic, holds this kithara, a plucked stringed instrument from ancient Greece
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19th Century French Neoclassical Revival Antique String Instrument

Materials

Bronze, Other

An Allegorical Illustration from Anthony Le Grand's The Principles of Philosophy
Located in Langweer, NL
. The instruments include trumpets, drums, and various wind and string instruments lying on the ground
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1690s Antique String Instrument

Materials

Paper

Still Life Vanitas Noletti Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italian
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
metals, musical instruments including a tambourine with its sticks and a stringed instrument, a lute and
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17th Century Old Masters Antique String Instrument

Materials

Oil

Roman Marble Head of a Satyr
Located in London, GB
rustic music on stringed instruments and pipes (De rerum natura, 4.580). Indeed, in Roman era depictions
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15th Century and Earlier Antique String Instrument

Materials

Marble

Roman Marble Head of a Satyr
Roman Marble Head of a Satyr
H 5.91 in Dm 5.91 in
18th Century Rococo Chinoiserie Canvas, Camaïeu Bleu, Circle of Francois Boucher
By François Boucher
Located in Cotignac, FR
stringed instrument as birds and butterflies soar overhead, the whole is surrounded by a 'feigned' Rococo
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Antique String Instrument

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Georgian Period Neoclassical Style Marble Mantel
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
drapes and a Lyre (ancient stringed musical instrument), to either side of the centre tablet are fluted
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Early 19th Century Scottish Neoclassical Antique String Instrument

Materials

Marble

Two Large Neoclassical Style Gilt Bronze Sconces
Located in London, GB
lyres — the stringed musical instrument, associated with ancient Greece. The arms are curved, and three
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Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Antique String Instrument

Materials

Ormolu, Bronze

Novelty Silver Mounted Lyre Decanter Hukin & Heath
By Heath & Middleton
Located in Northampton, GB
millesimal fineness (parts per thousand) of 925. Lyre a stringed musical instrument part of the lute-family
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Late 19th Century British Late Victorian Antique String Instrument

Materials

Silver, Sterling Silver

French Siena Marble Tazza Urns Charles X
Located in Newark, England
intense marble. Lyre a stringed musical instrument part of the lute-family and consists of two arms and a
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Early 19th Century French Charles X Antique String Instrument

Materials

Marble, Siena Marble, Metal, Bronze

French Siena Marble Tazza Urns Charles X
French Siena Marble Tazza Urns Charles X
H 18.1 in W 7.87 in D 7.87 in
Head of a Classical Poet (Socrates?)
By Pier Francesco Mola
Located in New York, NY
executed, richly nuanced physiognomy. Some with vacant eyes and a stringed instrument are traditionally
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17th Century Baroque Antique String Instrument

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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
Category

19th Century Indian Antique String Instrument

Materials

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
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19th Century Italian Renaissance Antique String Instrument

Materials

Walnut

Japanese Court Musician
Located in San Francisco, CA
, a Japanese traditional string instrument. Meiji period, circa 1885.  
Category

1880s Japanese Antique String Instrument

Materials

Wood

Japanese Court Musician
Japanese Court Musician
H 8.5 in W 7 in D 4.5 in
Figures in a Landscape Attributed to Pater
Located in Vancouver, BC
women with their stringed instruments. The subject matter and style of painting was common throughout
Category

1730s Romantic Antique String Instrument

Materials

Oil

Original Vintage Poster Teppichhaus Schuster St Gallen & Zurich Orient Carpets
By Emile Cardinaux
Located in London, GB
Switzerland featuring an Oriental style design depicting a lady playing music on a stringed instrument and a
Category

1920s Antique String Instrument

Materials

Paper

Marble Bust of Sapho
Located in Woodbury, CT
shoulder and continuing over the stringed instrument, the neck of which is broken and missing. Repairs to
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Late 19th Century Antique String Instrument

Materials

Marble

Marble Bust of Sapho
Marble Bust of Sapho
H 18 in W 11.75 in D 6 in
Large Decorative Islamic Qajar/Ottoman Underglaze Moulded Pottery Tile
Located in Haslemere, GB
women in the Qajar period and the themes of dance and music. A musician plays the Tar (stringed
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19th Century West Asian Islamic Antique String Instrument

Materials

Ceramic, Clay

Pair of 12th Century Rajasthan Red Sandstone Figures
Located in Mosman Park, AU
celestial musicians. One holding a stringed instrument with head turned to the right and the other playing a
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15th Century and Earlier Indian Antique String Instrument

Materials

Sandstone

Fireback, Second Empire
Located in Gembloux, BE
Architectures de l'Antiquite. I the center is the 'Lyre', a string-instrument known for its use in Greek
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1860s French Empire Revival Antique String Instrument

Materials

Iron

Fireback, Second Empire
Fireback, Second Empire
H 20.48 in W 20.48 in D 0.79 in
Antique Victorian Paste Lyre Heart Locket 9 Carat Gold Back and Front
Located in Lancaster, Lancashire
in the shape of a lovely Lyre which is a classical Greek string instrument and symbol of Apollo - God
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Early 1900s British Victorian Antique String Instrument

Materials

9k Gold

Still life with musical instruments (pair)
Located in Zürich, CH
manufacture of stringed instruments, naturally disposed the Bergamo artists to specialize in still lifes on a
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17th Century Antique String Instrument

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Antique String Instrument For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the antique string instrument you’re looking for at 1stDibs. An antique string instrument — often made from wood, mahogany and metal — can elevate any home. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer antique string instrument, there are earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. An antique string instrument is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Georgian, neoclassical and Victorian styles are sought with frequency. A well-made antique string instrument has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Cary’s, Dirk J. Balfoort and Gossin Frères Manufactory are consistently popular.

How Much is a Antique String Instrument?

Prices for an antique string instrument start at $241 and top out at $236,757 with the average selling for $5,700.