DHV:
1016
Tourin ID:
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Michel
Collichon
Date:
1693 ?
Label Text:
Collichon [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
Basel
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Henry Jean Vermeer, Basel, -195-.
Measurements:
Body Length:
34.6
String Length:
36
Rib Depth:
7.2
Upper Width:
16.9
Middle Width:
11.6
Bottom Width:
20.4
Information
Source:
Muthesius 1996, no. 5; JVdGSA 6 (1969), 65; H. Mueller, Methodik des Viola-da-Gamba-Spiels (typescript)
Literature:
Mackey 2020; Muthesius 1996; JVdGSA 6 (1969)-A, 65
Photographs:
Muthesius 1996, p. 49 (head side); [unpublished, from owner via J. Moran 6/13: FB+S, head F+S [color])
Recordings:
Mueller 1954 (Purcell)
Auctions:
Comments:
Muthesius 1996, no. 5: 4-piece table, 1-piece back, head original, date “169-”. Neck angle changed in 1959 restoration; also new bass bar. Fingerboard veneered in tortoiseshell with a border of “bois amourette” (= snakewood). Mueller: date 1693, “Originalzustand”; dimensions 35.0, 16.5/-/20.5, 7.2, 36.0. Not in Kessler 1990. JVdGSA 1969: date 1690. Owner to J. Moran, 9/10: acquired in 1950s from Henry Jean Vermeer, then head of the string instrument department at Hug & Co., Basel; restored by G. Hellwig (worm damage, etc.). Large floral ornament on table: 3 long-stemmed blooms in a V shape.