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DHV:
1596
Tourin ID:

Size:

Bass

Place Made:

Maker:

D

Hamburg

Joachim

Tielke

Date:

1690 C

Label Text:

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

J

Yokohama

No. of Strings:

6

Collection:

Private Collection

Sound Holes:

C

Catalog Number:

Head:

Lion

Private Owner:

Yes

Previous Owner:

Measurements:

Body Length:

68.5

String Length:

Rib Depth:

11.5

Upper Width:

31.9

Middle Width:

23.2

Bottom Width:

38.8

Information

Source:

Hellwig 2011, pp. 299-300

Literature:

Hellwig 2011, pp. 299-300, 377; Herzog 2003, D-16; Sotheby’s 4/5/1985, lot 56 (back [color?])

Photographs:

Hellwig 2011, p. 299 (back body only [color]); Sotheby’s 4/5/84, lot 56 (F+B)

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

Sotheby’s 1984/04/05, lot 56

Hellwig 2011, TieWV 073; not in Hellwig 1980. 2-piece table with no purfling, perhaps a replacement; soundholes originally C, then changed to F, later back to C. Upper and lower ribs overlap middle-bout ribs at body corners (unusual). 2-piece back, arched, with well-preserved varnish and carved ornament (with higher relief than usual) glued on at top but no purfling. Neck and lower part of pegbox new; peg for top string is closest to nut. Dating based on lion head (first found in 1689) and arrangement of pegs (last found in 1695). Provenance: Sotheby’s London, 1985 (recte 4/5/1984, lot 56); subsequently (re-)converted from cello to viol setup by Masato Sato for the present owner. Back widths 32.0/23.3/39.0. Also mentioned p. 377 as owner unknown, based only on Sotheby’s 1984. Sotheby’s 1984: converted to cello in England c. 1800; only back and head by Tielke. Apparently a new table was first made to viol outline and then enlarged to cello shape, like the back. Label: “Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1719”; length of back 74.5 cm.

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