DHV:
1137
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Naples ?
Date:
17..
Label Text:
[illegible, handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F
Marseille
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Emmanuel Balssa ( -2009); Toshinari Ohashi
Measurements:
Body Length:
72
String Length:
71
Rib Depth:
11
Upper Width:
34.5
Middle Width:
24
Bottom Width:
44
Information
Source:
Owner to TGM, 1/14, 2/15; Sotheby’s (NY) 6/26/79, lot 157
Literature:
Wells 1979, p. 525; Sotheby’s (NY) 6/26/79, lot 157
Photographs:
[From S. Moquet 1/14: F+B, head side, label [color]); Sotheby’s (NY) 6/26/79, lot 157 (F+B)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Sotheby’s 1979/06/26, lot 157 (New York)
Back has central 8-pointed star in circle, table has matching design; extensive additional geometic inlaid designs on back, ribs, pegbox, fingerboard, and tailpiece. C holes large and not near edges. Shoulders sloping but rather square. Length of back 71.1 cm. Wells 1979: “an enigmatic bass viol catalogued as probably Neapolitan and undoubtedly dating from the first half of the 18th century.” Moquet 1/14: illegible parchment label (handwritten on 3 lines, the second ending with “fecit”, date possibly “16..”); previous bridge by Jacques Francais; dendrochronology suggests 2H18C. Widely-separated double purfling on back (not sure about front); diagonal top edge of tailpiece.