DHV:
571
Tourin ID:
LOAN 08
Size:
Pardessus ?
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Jean
Ouvrard
Date:
1740 ?
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol ?
Current Location:
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
[LOAN 08 (Mr. T.W. Taphouse)]
Sound Holes:
C ?
Catalog Number:
Head:
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
T.W. Taphouse (1904)
Measurements:
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String Length:
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Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
Information
Source:
Loan 1904, p. 148
Literature:
Taphouse 1905, p. 3; Loan 1904, p. 148
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Auctions:
Comments:
Catalogue: “treble...known in France as ‘Quinton’ or ‘Pardessus de Viol’.” No other Ouvrard dated 1740 currently known. But Taphouse 1905 (estate auction catalogue) lists as no. 8 “Viol, French, five strings, carved head, by Ouvrard, Paris, 1745,” so perhaps date is wrong either there or in the Loan 1904 catalogue. (Taphouse’s Ouvrard can’t be either PARIS 26 or PARIS 28—assuming they are in fact two different instruments—because they both have 6 strings, not 5.)