DHV:
1330
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Florence
Date:
1730 C
Label Text:
Matteo Bente Faciebat / Brexcia / Anno a Christo / Nato / M D L XXXIIII [printed] / 1584 [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Cello
Current Location:
USA
Brooklyn, NY
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Robert Loy, Portland, Oregon, 1994-2001; John Matthews, Baltimore and Maine, mid-1960s to 1994; William Post Ross, Boston
Measurements:
Body Length:
69.8
String Length:
69.1
Rib Depth:
11.8
Upper Width:
32.3
Middle Width:
24.6
Bottom Width:
42.2
Information
Source:
TGM visit 5/02; letter from R. Loy to current owner
Literature:
Herzog 2003, IT-44
Photographs:
[By TGM: FB+S, head side (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
2-piece table and back, both with single purfling, latter of slab-cut birch, flat with no fold. Tailgut; no crossbars on back except soundpost plate. Restored by William Monical, 1996: new neck, pegbox, and scroll (latter copied from cello by Jacob Horril, c. 1730). Previously had 7 strings and putto head (this incarnation perhaps 19th-C. Austrian work?); more recent repairs by Kellischek and Bouman in 1960s. Monical’s attribution primarily based on varnish, nearly 100% original; instrument may originally have been a bassetto.