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Two Seventeenth-Century Guitars

Two Seventeenth-Century Guitars

Left: NNM 3346. Guitar by Domenico Sellas, Venice, ca. 1670.   Inlaid mother-of-pearl.   Arne B. and Jeanne F. Larson Endowment Fund, 1984.

Right: NNM 4143. Guitar by Alexandre Voboam, Paris, 1670.   Rawlins Fund, 1987.  

Members of the Sellas family in Venice and the Voboam family in Paris made many of the finest guitars of the 17th century.

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