DHV:
1549
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1697
Label Text:
JOACHIM TIELKE // in Hamburg/ an. 1697 [large format, printed except 97]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
A
Vienna
No. of Strings:
-4
Collection:
Vázquez, José [heirs]
Sound Holes:
C*
Catalog Number:
154
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Heirs of Pan Arnborg, Oslo (sold 2007 through Sotheby’s Norway); acquired by Vázquez in 2008
Measurements:
Body Length:
64
String Length:
68
Rib Depth:
11.9
Upper Width:
28.7
Middle Width:
21.6
Bottom Width:
35.4
Information
Source:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 325-26; Vázquez website
Literature:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 325-26; Vázquez website
Photographs:
Vázquez website ((FB+S body only, table arching (unstrung), rosette, treble C-hole, back ornament, head FB+S, label [color]); Hellwig 2011, pp. 325-26 front body only, head FB+S (strung as a cello) [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 099; not in Hellwig 1980. 2-piece table with crescent-shaped soundholes, ivory edging, and wide single purfling; bass bar probably not original. 2-piece back (arched); neck grafted; pegbox with open-carved back; peg for top string is closest to nut. Back widths 27.7/21.6/34.8. Vázquez website: Carved ornament removed from back. Photos show cello setup using middle 4 of 6 holes in pegbox.“In an extraordinarily pure state of preservation” despite having been (carefully) transformed into a cello, including “an immaculate, complete layer of its original varnish, showing the typical craquelé structure”; bass bar may not be original. Dendrochronology gives date of 1688 for youngest growth ring on table. Very similar to viol shown in a fresco in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche near Salzburg (by J. M. Rottmayr, 1700; photo on website). Dimensions 64.0, 28.7/21.6/35.4, 11.9, 68.0.