DHV:
1121
Tourin ID:
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Pierre
Bocquay
Date:
1697
Label Text:
Faist par Pierre Bocquay à Paris an 1697 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Sound Holes:
C ?
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Charles Fogler, London, early 1970s-before 1990 (?)
Measurements:
Body Length:
34.1
String Length:
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
Information
Source:
Sotheby’s 5/24/73, lot 130
Literature:
Wells 1974, p. 35; Sotheby’s 5/24/73, lot 130
Photographs:
Sotheby’s 5/24/73, lot 130 (back)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Sotheby’s 1973/05/24, lot 130
Striped (pine and maple): 5-piece back, 3-piece ribs; 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side; length of back 34.1. Maker not found in standard reference works; presumably an undocumented relative of Jacques Boquay. (Date seems much too early to have originally been a 5-string pardessus, so perhaps this setup is a later conversion; cf. Collichon 1686, Gilbert 1701, Morant 1709.)