DHV:
897
Tourin ID:
VIENNA 06
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Venice
Antonio
Ciciliano
Date:
1540 C ?
Label Text:
Antonio Ciciliano [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
A
Vienna
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
SAM 71 (Schlosser: C76)
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Descendants of Archduke Ferdinand Habsburg (husband of Tommaso Obizzi’s daughter Maria Beatrix d’Este), 1805- ; Pio Enea II Obizzi and descendants, Castle Catajo near Padua, -1805 (probably since early 17th century)
Measurements:
Body Length:
58
String Length:
71.5
Rib Depth:
12
Upper Width:
29.5
Middle Width:
20
Bottom Width:
32
Information
Source:
PT visits 6/77 & 9/78
Literature:
Hoffmann 2018, pp. 156-58; Thorby 2018, pp. 9-13; Hopfner 2008; Beuting 2007, pp. 208-09; Carter 2006; Hopfner 2006; Hopfner 2004, p. 154; Zopf 2002; Moens 1989, pp. 47-48; Heyde 1986, 116-17; Edmunds 1980, pp. 75, 84, 86; Schlosser 1920, p. 64
Photographs:
Hoffmann 2018, p. 157 (front 7/8); Pio 2011, pp. 105 (F+B [color]), 107 (head side [color]); Hopfner 2006, p. 70 (front); Hopfner 2004, p. 55 (front [color]); Moens 1995, p. 220 (F+S); KHM Klangführer 1993, p. 47 (front [color]); König 1985, p. 78 (front); Schlosser 1920, pl. XVII (front)
Recordings:
KHM Klangführer 1993, track 6.2
Auctions:
Comments:
Sharply sloping shoulders, table smaller than back in upper bout. Hopfner 2006: body outline and neck setting and length original; ribs original, with significant worm damage Hopfner 2008: dendro date by P. Klein (1988) was 1575, but now revised to 1403 by M. Beuting (2007). Restored in 1910 by Alfred Coletti (not by Karl Haudek, c. 1901), including back veneered with bird’s-eye maple (due to worm damage) and purfling added to table. Carter 2006: back not original, soundpost and bass bar likewise, but museum considers neck to be original. Estimated SL “? 72”. Moens 1989: earliest possible date for table is 1580 (based on dendrochronology [by P. Klein]); back “probably much younger;” neck probably not original. Edmunds 1994: wood very similar to C77—probably part of same set; date 1560-80, SL 72. Thorby 2018: label not original. Only Woodfield 1984, p. 130 and Hopfner 2008 call this a bass, others say tenor. Edmunds 1980 dimensions 57, 29.5/-/32.0, -, 72?