DHV:
984
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
William
Turner
Date:
1650 C
Label Text:
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Northampton, MA
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Eli Potash, New York, 1984-89; San Domenico Stringed Instruments, Cardiff, Wales, -1984
Measurements:
Body Length:
67.6
String Length:
68.1
Rib Depth:
11.2
Upper Width:
32.2
Middle Width:
25.1
Bottom Width:
39.6
Information
Source:
TGM visit 10/93
Literature:
Fleming 2001: VME 27; Sotheby’s 11/22/84, lot 74
Photographs:
Fleming 2001: VME F27 (front body only), L29 (rosette) [both color]; Sotheby’s 11/22/84, lot 74 (F+B); [by TGM: FB+S, head side, rosette]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Sotheby’s 1984/11/22, lot 74
2-piece table with heart-shaped rosette, purfling around C-holes; 2-piece back (plus 2 small wings) with diamond patterns at bottom and below fold. Middle bouts very assymetrical. Plain pegbox, ebony fingerboard and tailpiece with boxwood perimeter line. Sotheby’s 1984: 2H17C, unlabelled; shown with diamond patterns on tailpiece and bridge end of fingerboard (since changed); BL 67.9, SL 69.5. San Domenico: English, c. 1680. Current neck by Robert Meadow (done for E. Potash). Fleming 2001: 2-piece table, single purfling front and back; dimensions 67.4, 31.9/24.9/39.4, 11.2, -.