DHV:
1402
Tourin ID:
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Nuremberg
Leonhard
Maussiell
Date:
1724
Label Text:
Leonard Maussiell, Lautten- und Geigenmacher in Nürnberg, 1724 [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Hamburg
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
Head:
Cupid
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
38.7
String Length:
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
Information
Source:
S. Eckert to TGM, 9/04 (new owner’s name); Sotheby’s 11/25/03, lot 238
Literature:
Sotheby’s 11/25/03, lot 238
Photographs:
Sotheby’s 11/25/03, lot 238 (front 3/4)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Sotheby’s 2003/11/25, lot 238
2-piece table and back, rosette; neck and pegbox not original. Sotheby’s: “A viola d’amore now strung as a treble viola da gamba.” Head described as “a blindfolded cherub,” so here classified as a cupid.