DHV:
1581
Tourin ID:
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Simon
Gilbert
Date:
17..
Label Text:
SALOMON / Maitre Luthier à Paris, Rue / L’Arbre- sec à Ste. Cecille / 1755 [printed except 1755]
Body Shape:
Violin
Current Location:
I
Milan
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
34
String Length:
29.6
Rib Depth:
4.2
Upper Width:
15
Middle Width:
10.2
Bottom Width:
19
Information
Source:
Christie’s 4/29/11, lot 90 (and e-mails 4/11)
Literature:
Christie’s 4/29/11, lot 90
Photographs:
Christie’s 4/29/11, lot 90 (front, head 3/4 [color]); [unpublished, from Christie’s: back body only, C holes, head B+S, label (color); from Vittorio Ghielmi 4/24 (F+B, FB+S body only, head 3/4, B+S [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Christie’s 2011/04/29, lot 90
“From the estate of a professional musician”; 1-piece back; 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side; body length taken on back. Clear graft between pebox and neck in an unusual place, just below lowest peghole. TGM: soundholes and carved head very similar to TOKYO 1, a pardessus by Simon Gilbert (Metz, 1752); similar soundholes but different head on Gilbert pardessus of 1730 (?) at Harvard. V. Ghielmi to TGM 4/24: must be by Gilbert; paper and ink of label are modern.