Fine Neapolitan mandolin by Donato Filano, Naples, 1760, the...

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£5,000 - £7,000

Fine Neapolitan mandolin by Donato Filano, Naples, 1760, the back with twenty-one fluted ribs, the table edged with ivory, with a mother of pearl plaque below the bridge and a tortoiseshell plaque above it, the sound hole with mother of pearl segments inset into tortoiseshell, the neck overlaid with bone and ebony strips, the neck and the face of the head overlaid with tortoiseshell and ivory, the latter with extensive incised decoration, labelled Donato Filano Fecit Napoli 1760, in case