DHV:
1319
Tourin ID:
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Benoist
Fleury
Date:
17..
Label Text:
Benoist Fleury rue des Boucheries / Faubourg S. German a Paris 17 [printed; final 2 digits of date probably once handwritten, but now illegible]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
London
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Horniman Museum
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
15.10.48/21
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Percy Bull, London, -1948
Measurements:
Body Length:
33.3
String Length:
31.5
Rib Depth:
5.2
Upper Width:
15.6
Middle Width:
11.1
Bottom Width:
19.3
Information
Source:
TGM visit 8/03; museum to TGM, 9-11/01
Literature:
Photographs:
[By TGM: FB+S, head FB+S, bottom rib, label (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
2-piece table and back, both with double purfling; back has semicircle at bottom in addition to (not part of) purfling tracks. 3 pegs treble, 2 bass side; La Fille-type decoration on pegbox. Fingerboard ebony veneer, tailpiece solid rosewood. Varnish chipped and scratched, redone in some places (must be from before 1948). (Fleury died in 1792.)