DHV:
56
Tourin ID:
BENT 1 GAL 3
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London (Southwark)
Henry
Jaye
Date:
1620
Label Text:
Henry Jay in / Southwark / 1620 [handwritten, last 2 digits faint, not all capital letters; plus a modern copy]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
Oxford
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Thurston Dart (in 1959); Marco Pallis (in 1951)
Measurements:
Body Length:
37.9
String Length:
35
Rib Depth:
5
Upper Width:
18
Middle Width:
13.3
Bottom Width:
22.3
Information
Source:
TGM visit 10/01; Fleming 2001: VME 06
Literature:
Fleming 2007, p. 28 (JP 015); Fleming 2001: VME 06; IAML-Galpin 1959, p. 273; Galpin Society 1951, #3
Photographs:
Fleming 2001: VME F06 (front body only), L33 (front) [both color]; Ashbee 1992, dust jacket (bass C-hole [color]); [by TGM: FB+S, rosette (color)]; [unpublished, in Heale Archive, on display in 1951: front 3/4]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Ribs cut down; new neck. 5-piece table with double purfling and replacement oval rosette (very open pattern). 2-piece back with no purfling, once folded but no longer. Varnish quite dark, reddish and shiny. Fleming 2001: 7-piece table with double purfling and replacement rose, back and ribs cut down; neck and head not original; dimensions 37.6, 18.1/13.1/22.1, 5.1, -. IAML 1959 dimensions: 37.7, 18.2/-/22.2, 5.0, -.