DHV:
992
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Richard
Meares
Date:
16..
Label Text:
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
Winchester
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Dr. Richard Luckett, Cambridge, c. 1986-c. 1990; David Rubio, Cambridge
Measurements:
Body Length:
68.2
String Length:
69.3
Rib Depth:
12
Upper Width:
32.1
Middle Width:
23.3
Bottom Width:
39
Information
Source:
TGM visit 8/03; M. Levy to TGM, 11/02; M. Fleming visit 7/99
Literature:
Photographs:
[By TGM: FB+S, head back, table ornament (color)]; [unpublished, from M. Fleming: F+B body only (color)]
Recordings:
Levy 2012 (C. Gibbons); Levy 2005 (Love Bade Me Welcome); Levy 2002 (Telemann/Recorder); Levy 1992 (Telemann) [+ others, including with Concordia?]
Auctions:
Comments:
2-piece table with ornament, high arching; 2-piece back with inlaid diamonds in center, plus oval-and-triangle above and below; both with double purfling. (Back design very similar to Dreyfus’s Meares, but different from most others by him.) Meares-like soundholes. Rib depth at center bout 12.7. “A. Dipper Luthier / Restored and rebuilt 1987-88 at Taynton / Oxon.” (neck, head, fingerboard, tailpiece). Fleming dimensions 68.1, 31.7/23.2/38.8, 12.0, 69.5. (Meares probably died c. 1700.)