DHV:
1044
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
Date:
16..
Label Text:
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
J
Hamamatsu City
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Museum of Musical Instruments
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
C-0007R
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Dorothy & Robert Rosenbaum, Scarsdale, NY, no. 284
Measurements:
Body Length:
67.9
String Length:
68.8
Rib Depth:
12.5
Upper Width:
31.6
Middle Width:
22.8
Bottom Width:
39.6
Information
Source:
Museum to TGM, 6/09; Hamamatsu 1995, p. 16; Sotheby’s 3/13/72, lot 129
Literature:
Hamamatsu 1995, p. 16; Sotheby’s 3/13/72, lot 129
Photographs:
Uemura 2011 (front, head 3/4 [color]); Hamamatsu 1995, p. 16 (side 1/2, from above); Sotheby’s 3/13/72, lot 129 (F+B); [unpublished, from museum 8/09: FB+S (color)]
Recordings:
Uemura 2011 (English Consort Music: Hamamatsu Museum)
Auctions:
Comments:
2-piece back of strongly-flamed wood with ovals at bottom and below fold, diamond pattern in center, double perimeter purfling; table with ornament and (?) double purfling. Modern head and pegbox, also neck, fingerboard, and tailpiece. Hamamatsu 1995: “(London) 4th qtr. of 17c”; total length 124.5. Rosenbaum estate inventory (seen at Boston MFA): School of Richard Meares, c. 1700. Sotheby’s: “by Richard Meares, London, unlabeled”; head by Joseph Skeaping; length of back 27 5/8 in [= 70.1 cm].