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DHV:
885
Tourin ID:
VIC 09

Size:

Bass

Place Made:

Maker:

D

Hamburg

Joachim

Tielke

Date:

1704 C

Label Text:

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

GB

London

No. of Strings:

6

Collection:

Victoria & Albert Museum

Sound Holes:

C

Catalog Number:

7360-1861

Head:

Female

Private Owner:

Previous Owner:

Measurements:

Body Length:

68

String Length:

68.5

Rib Depth:

12.9

Upper Width:

30.7

Middle Width:

22.4

Bottom Width:

37.4

Information

Source:

Hellwig 2011, pp. 350-52; PT visit 6/77

Literature:

Hellwig 2011, pp. 350-51; Hellwig 1980, pp. 306-7; Baines 1968, p. 6; Engel 1874, p. 262

Photographs:

On museum’s website (F+B 7/8; F 3/4 [color], also formerly head from 2 angles); Hellwig 2011, pp. 350-52 (FB+S, fingerboard, neck heel [color]); Hellwig 1980, p. 307 (front 7/8); Baines 1968, fig. 6 (F+B 3/4); V&A 1968, fig. 37 (front 7/8)

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

Hellwig 2011, TieWV 144; Hellwig 1980, no. 121: 2-piece table with ivory edging and badly sunken arching; 2-piece back (arched) with ivory edging and painted double “purfling”, badly warped. Pegbox with open-carved back, inlaid fingerboard (ivory on tortoiseshell veneer with ivory frame); tailpiece [decoratively compatible but] not original, probably by Barak Norman (cf. Hebbert 2001, X:13). Dimensions 67.8, 30.0/22.5/35.5, 13.0, 67.5. Baines 1968: German, early 18th-C (but cites Hellwig’s attribution to Tielke). Painted double purfling plus ivory edging; carved neck heel. Fingerboard with floral marquetry in ivory and tortoiseshell; tailpiece with bird and butterfly in ebony and boxwood. Back badly warped. Pegs not original. On display 10/01: plain, flat back; no fold, but ribs get gradually shallower towards neck. Hellwig 2011 adds: double “purfling” on table also painted. Back widths 30.2/22.0/37.0. Dating by G. Hellwig; all details point to the later years of the Tielke shop. Fingerboard is reverse-color counterpart of TieWV 145.

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