DHV:
1020
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
Label Text:
Sold by Alexand’ Livingstone at his Shop in Birchen Lane (near) the Royal Exchange, all sorts of Musical Instruments, Books and Songs, with Tunes, Strings, Rul’d Paper etc.
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CH
Zurich
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Margrit Buehler, Schaffhausen (CH), -2013; Imke David, 11/1993 - 2/1994
Measurements:
Body Length:
66.3
String Length:
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
30
Middle Width:
22
Bottom Width:
36
Information
Source:
Owner to TGM, 10/07; Sotheby’s 11/18/93, lot 66
Literature:
Hebbert 2001, p. 307 (X:01); Sotheby’s 11/18/93, lot 66
Photographs:
Sotheby’s 11/18/93, lot 66 (F+B); [unpublished, from owner on Kessler certificate: F+B body only, side full length]
Recordings:
Goetschel 2016 (Cellini Consort; Gibbons & Locke)
Auctions:
Comments:
Sotheby’s 1993/11/18, lot 66
2-piece table with wings, 3-piece back, double purfling on both. Later neck, pegbox, and scroll. Extensive worm damage now restored. Sotheby’s: “Probably by Richard Meares”; Ben Hebbert (personal communication): “definitely by Barak Norman”; Kessler certificate for current owner: “made ... by Barak Norman, London, in the last decade of the 17th century.” Repair labels: “Repaired by John Eadie, Roughazie, near Glasgow, Anno 1804”; “Restored by Matthys de Jong, Perth, W.A. 1992”. Also restored by Marc Soubeyran, 1994. Table ornament Type VIII, back center Type III, above and below Type II.