Kamānche
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Wood, metal, bone, gut
- Dimensions
- Height: 40 1/2 in. (102.9 cm) Width: 6 in. (15.3 cm) Diameter: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
- Origin
- Iranian (Persian)
- Department
- Musical Instruments
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher M. Brown III Gift, 1998
Art Genome Taxonomy
12 tags
Artistic Disciplines
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Music Metadata · 99%
The museum identifies the object as a kamānche and classifies it as a chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted instrument in the Musical Instruments department.
Visual Qualities
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 98%
The neck, pegbox, resonating body, and endpin are covered with dense repeated ornament and decorative banding.
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Patterns Visual · 96%
Repeated linear and granular decorative motifs are visible along the neck and across the rounded body.
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Slender Visual · 97%
The object has a long narrow neck and a compact rounded body, producing an elongated, slender silhouette.
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Shiny/Glossy Visual · 91%
Reflective highlights are visible on the fittings and ornamented surfaces.
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Single Object Visual · 99%
The photograph isolates one complete instrument against a plain light background.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 98%
The museum dates the instrument to circa 1880, within the nineteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Iranian Art Metadata · 99%
The recorded place of origin is Iranian (Persian).
Materials
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Wood Metadata · 99%
Wood is included in the museum's recorded medium, and the neck and resonating body appear to be constructed primarily from wood or wood-based components.
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Metal Metadata · 98%
Metal is listed in the recorded medium; the tuning pegs, bands, fittings, and reflective decorative elements visibly include metallic-looking components.
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Bone Metadata · 99%
Bone is explicitly listed in the museum's recorded medium, although its particular locations are not securely identifiable in the photograph.
Antiquities, Artifacts, and Religious Objects
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Musical Instrument Metadata · 99%
The catalog explicitly identifies the object as a musical instrument.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Kamānche. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.