DHV:
1085
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D ?
Date:
1700 C
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
No. of Strings:
Collection:
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Male
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
69.2
String Length:
69.2
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
Information
Source:
Sotheby’s 12/4/91, lot 53
Literature:
Montagu 1992, p. 472; Sotheby’s 12/4/91, lot 53
Photographs:
Sotheby’s 12/4/91, lot 53 (F+B)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Sotheby’s 1991/12/04, lot 53
Sotheby’s: division viol, partly German school, c. 1700 and later (left upper and middle ribs and two-piece back by W.E. Hill & Sons). Male head with moustache; floral carving on pegbox sides and back; 12-pointed star in rosette and center of back. Unstrung when photographed. Montagu 1992: “more by W.E. Hill than [its] original maker”. W. Monical (to TGM 10/16): composite instrument with new table edgework; soundholes unusually delicate and small, set very high; parchment rose may be 18C. Neither body nor pegbox and head suggest any national style.