About this work
A 19th-century bowl lyre of tortoiseshell, skin, wood, and leather (48.5 x 20.5 x 5 cm), catalogued by the Met as probably Ethiopian. From the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889 (89.4.539).
Original catalogue wording
Source classification: musical instrument
- Date
- 19th century
- Object type
- Musical instruments
- Recorded place
- probably Ethiopian
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Accession
- 89.4.539