DHV:
835
Tourin ID:
TIELK 030
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1685
Label Text:
JOACHIM TIELKE // in Hamburg/ An. 1685 [large format, printed except 85]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Mishawaka, IN
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Bo Holtsberg, Stockholm-Johanneshov, -1986
Measurements:
Body Length:
66
String Length:
66.5
Rib Depth:
11.5
Upper Width:
31.7
Middle Width:
23
Bottom Width:
37.5
Information
Source:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 34-35; TGM visit 8/92; Christie’s 11/11/86, lot 109; Hellwig 1980
Literature:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 34-35; Muthesius 2006, p. 44; Montagu 1987, p. 249; Christie’s 11/11/86, lot 109; Hellwig 1980, p. 175
Photographs:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 34 (back body only, back seen from pegbox [color]); Christie’s 11/11/86, lot 109 (F+B [color]); Hellwig 1980, pp. 97 (back ornament), 121 (label), 175 (looking up back); [unpublished, by and from R. Portillo: FB+S, head F+S (color)]
Recordings:
Morgan 1991 (Watkins Ale: Baltimore Consort)
Auctions:
Comments:
Christie’s 1986/11/11, lot 109
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 034; Hellwig 1980, no. 030. 3-piece table with double purfling; 3-piece back (arched) with oval carving (Diana in chariot with stags). Restored 1962/3 by G. Hellwig; neck, pegbox, and head not original (PB carved by Alfred Brock, Copenhagen, based on TieWV 120; head anon.), fingerboard and tailpiece also not original. Dimensions 66.0, 30.6/22.6/37.6. Repair label: “Reparerat af Petter Allberg / I Uddevalla. 1803” [handwritten]. Muthesius 2006: 3-piece table, bent not carved. TGM dimensions 66.0, 31.8/23.1/37.5, 11.5, 65.6. Hellwig 2011 adds: bass bar not original; no purfling on back; varnish on body almost all original. Back widths 30.4/22.7/37.6.