DHV:
1169
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Brescia
Pietro
Zenatto ?
Date:
1693 ?
Label Text:
Zanetto da Brescia / 1693
Body Shape:
Cello
Current Location:
LV
Riga
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Riga Museum of History and Navigation
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
VRVM 57335
Head:
Orpheus
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
64
String Length:
Rib Depth:
11.5
Upper Width:
28.5
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
37.5
Information
Source:
M. Herzog to TGM, 8/96
Literature:
Herzog 2003, IT-10; Braun 1962
Photographs:
Herzog 2002, p. 157 (front); [unpublished, from M. Herzog: front, front 3/4, head front, rib detail (color); from Markku L-M 6/08: front from below, back, rib details, pegbox front and joint with neck, label (color)]
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Comments:
Back and sides elaborately decorated with painted designs in gold and black; perhaps not original? Extremely ornate pegbox and head, fastened to non-original neck with screws. Double purfling on table; flat back. More likely made in the late 19th century by “Pietro Zenatto ... in Treviso anno 1683” than Zenatto of Brescia in the 16th century.