â–¡ AN ARCHED HARP (SAUNG GAUK), BURMA, 20TH CENTURY

lacquered and parcel gilt wood body with glass inlay and relief decoration, with deerskin soundboard and long curved neck made of the root of the sha tree, the fourteen strings with cord tuners, associated folding stand 72cm high

For an earlier saung gauk in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see inv. no. 258-1882. See also Thomas E. Cross, 'Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Tibet: The Shrine to Music Museum, Catalogue of the Collections', Vol II, 1982, p.3