DHV:
1248
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
F ?
Date:
17..
Label Text:
Maggini [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F
Nice
No. of Strings:
7
Collection:
Musée du Palais Lascaris
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
C.35 (Fonds Gautier 1751)
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Antoine Gautier, Nice, before 1878-1904
Measurements:
Body Length:
66.1
String Length:
65.3
Rib Depth:
12.8
Upper Width:
29.7
Middle Width:
21.6
Bottom Width:
36.8
Information
Source:
TGM visit 5/00; Thevenon 1998, pp. 68-69
Literature:
Adelson 2017, p. 31; Bran-Ricci 2006, p. 161; La Grandville 2000, pp. 3, 5; Thevenon 1998, pp. 68-69
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F [color]); Bran-Ricci 2006, pp. 159-60 (head front, bass C-bout); La Grandville 2000, p. 3 (detail of rosette and C-holes, 3/4 [color]); Thevenon 1998, pp. 68-69 (front, head 3/4 [color]); [by TGM: FB+S, head F+S (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
2-piece table (with wings in upper bouts) with double inked “purfling”, painted gold and black rosette, similar curlicues around soundholes, black-and-white triangle-pattern edging. 2-piece back, ribs, and pegbox all also have double inked “purfling”. Fingerboard veneered in 2 pieces of non-matching tortoise-shell; tailpiece ebony veneer with diamond-pattern white-and-gold edging. Neck possibly original; head grafted to pegbox. Back has cloth perimeter and joint linings; no crossbars except soundpost plate. “Maggini” label with right portion torn off; placed in center, facing treble soundhole. Repair label: “Luthfi Becker reparavit 1977”. Catalogue says also restored by D. Sinier and F. De Ridder, 1994, including doubling of table with cloth. Catalogue dimensions: 68.0, -/22.0/36.5, -, -. Bran-Ricci 2006: restored by Bovis (Nice, c. 1900); then c. 1970 to make it playable, but tension made it “explode”; finally put back together in 1994. Fake label and “décor...factice” suggest Italian origin, but “sans doute français ou anglais, d’une qualité remarquable.”