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Walking Stick Violin
Moritz Glazel, makerlate 19th century
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, United States
This isn’t just a walking stick festooned with flowers, animals and insects, created in ivory and mother-of-pearl. It is also a violin. Walking sticks that contained or functioned as instruments, like violins, recorders, flutes, oboes, and trumpets, were popular in the early 19th century.
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Details
- Title: Walking Stick Violin
- Creator: Moritz Glazel, maker
- Date Created: late 19th century
- Location: Germany
- Location Created: Germany
- Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Eda Kuhn Loeb
- Medium: wood, paint, ivory, mother-of-pearl, nickel, spruce, ebony, iron, copper alloy, rosewood, gilt metal
- Art Genre: Musical Instrument
- Depicted Location: Cincinnati Art Museum
- Accession Number: 1952.50
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