DHV:
1411
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Berlin
Jacob
Meinertzen
Date:
1700 C
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
62.9
String Length:
65.1
Rib Depth:
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
Information
Source:
Sotheby’s 12/12/85, lot 107
Literature:
Montagu 1986, p. 258; Sotheby’s 12/12/85, lot 107
Photographs:
Sotheby’s 12/12/85, lot 107 (F+B [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Sotheby’s 1985/12/12, lot 107
Slightly arched back of cypress; ribs also cypress; back and table edged with ivory. Original bass bar. Neck, pegbox and open scroll, fingerboard and tailpiece by Günther Hellwig; attribution to Meinertzen also by him. Montagu 1986: “rather rough head and neck.”