DHV:
1031
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
Label Text:
Barak / Norman / London [stamped in center of table ornament]; BN monogram in center of back
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Newton Centre, MA
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Tony Bingham, London
Measurements:
Body Length:
68.1
String Length:
69.1
Rib Depth:
12.2
Upper Width:
31.5
Middle Width:
23.3
Bottom Width:
37.5
Information
Source:
TGM visit 10/93
Literature:
Jeppesen 2021, p. 74; Hebbert 2001, p. 315 (X:44); Montagu 1984, p. 268; Sotheby’s 12/18/84, lot 5
Photographs:
Sotheby’s 12/18/84, lot 5 (FB+S); [by TGM: front]; [unpublished, in Heale Archive: FB+S]
Recordings:
Jeppesen 1992 (Marais)
Auctions:
Comments:
Sotheby’s 1984/12/18, lot 5 (New York)
Table and back with double purfling (single around soundholes). Pegbox plain except perimeter purfling on back and sides and single stripe down each front edge; fingerboard and tailpiece ebony veneer with double WBW perimeter purfling. Bridge by Douglas Cox (Putney, VT). Restored by “Andrew Dipper / Luthier / 42 Taynton, Burford / Oxon, England” (label inside); owner has copy of restoration report, obtained through Sotheby’s, in which Dipper says “circa 1697” (Sotheby’s gave date as circa 1710). Per Jeppesen 2021, found in pieces in a NY antique shop by Bayard Rustin (civil rights activist and tenor), who took it to Hubbard, then Dipper, for restoration. Table ornament Type VI, back center BN monogram, above and below Type II.