λ AN INDIAN PAINTED IVORY AND BONE-INLAID HARDWOOD RAVI SHANKAR-STYLE SITAR
Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, North-Eastern India, ca. 1960s

The traditional stringed instrument with a voluminous gourd-shaped resonance chamber (kaddu) and long, hollow, and flattened neck (dandi), the resonance chamber finely carved on the reverse with lush palmette leaves and blossoming flower bouquets, the rounded tumba at the top carved with similar vegetal motifs as the kaddu, the body inlaid with engraved and red and black-painted ivory plaques with floral tendrils, leaves, doves, geometric motifs and bands of beaded 'eye' motif, the tuning pegs at the top carved in the shape of rosebuds, with two strings and two tuning beads at the top, the overall decorative design and style very close to Pandit Ravi Shankar and Pandit Nikhil Banerjee's sitars.

124.5cm high

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