DHV:
846
Tourin ID:
TIELK 086
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1697
Label Text:
JOACHIM TIELKE // in Hamburg/ An. 1697 [large format, printed except 97]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
F
Paris
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Sound Holes:
C*
Catalog Number:
D.AD.23.461
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Mme Bolteau -1923
Measurements:
Body Length:
67.1
String Length:
67.5
Rib Depth:
10.6
Upper Width:
30.4
Middle Width:
22.8
Bottom Width:
38.3
Information
Source:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 323-24; Hellwig 1980, pp. 254-5
Literature:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 323-24; Gétreau 2001, p. 40; Gétreau, in Hel 1990, p. ?? (no. 21); Hellwig 1980, pp. 254-5 (Website of Musée de la musique)
Photographs:
Hellwig 2011, pp. 58, 324 (bass soundhole; F+B body only, neck heel, hookbar [color]); on website of Musée de la musique (front 3/4 with no strings or pegs [color])
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 097; Hellwig 1980, no. 086. 2-piece table with sickle-shaped soundholes, ivory edging, and double purfling. Multi-stave back and ribs (13 and 9 pieces of palisander with ivory strips between) with ivory edging. Head not original; only part of pegbox survives; neck narrowed and shortened as part of conversion to a cello; fingerboard not original, no tailpiece; original ivory hookbar. Badly damaged condition. Dimensions 67.0, 30.2/22.0/38.3, 12.8, -. On display 8/02 at Musée de la musique: cello head. Website: female head in Directoire style is not original. Hellwig 2011 adds: top block not original; ivory carvings at neck heel; arched back; pegbox survives only fragmentarily (glued-on ivory decorations) and head is lost. Back widths 30.7/22.8/38.3. On loan to Musée de la musique since 1995.