DHV:
1008
Tourin ID:
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Date:
1730 ?
Label Text:
Johann ... laut[en] / [und] Geigenmacher in / ...en [anno] 17.0-
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
B
Brussels
No. of Strings:
-4
Collection:
Musée des instruments de musique
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
0484
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Auguste Tolbecque, -1879
Measurements:
Body Length:
43
String Length:
40.3
Rib Depth:
6.4
Upper Width:
20.1
Middle Width:
13.4
Bottom Width:
26.4
Information
Source:
Museum data sheet 6/19; Mahillon 2/1893, 1:467
Literature:
Mahillon 2/1893, 1:467
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+S [color]; front); [unpublished, museum to TGM 6/19: label]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Mahillon: viole (with no further size identification); museum’s website: treble viol; both: German. Website: “a viola with elements from the gamba and viola d'amore construction ... probably dates from around 1850 or later.” Flat back with fold with painted purfling; table with real purfling; narrow, round-profile neck with “massive wedge shaped fingerboard [and] cello-style pegbox; tailpiece decorated with plant motif in black veneer on white background. “The date is uncertain. One can read both 1720 and 1730. Several elements, however, indicate a nineteenth century origin: the flame-shaped sound holes, the type of varnish, the number of holes for tuning keys and the shape of the pegbox and neck.”