DHV:
1195
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Label Text:
Place Made:
F, Mirecourt
Maker:
Date:
18..
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA, Reston, VA
Sound Holes:
F
Collection:
Private collection
No. of Strings:
7
Catalog Number:
Head:
Male
Previous Owner:
Bought from Parisian dealer Henri Berv, 1961
Measurements:
Body Length:
72.3
String Length:
67.8
Rib Depth:
9.3
Upper Width:
35.3
Middle Width:
24.6
Bottom Width:
39
Information Source:
TGM visit 9/97
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
[Unpublished, from owner: FB+S, head front (color)]
Black-and-white edge decoration on table, back, and sides of pegbox (whose back is carved). Painting of 8 cherub musicians on back, which has only slight fold. Fingerboard elaborately inlaid with honey-colored wood; tailpiece does not match. Tailgut, with no sign of hookbar. Neck set into table by 1.8 cm; just long enough for 7 frets; narrow (nut only 5.4 cm wide), with fairly round profile. Head screws off: man is bald with extremely long beard. Owner described it as Tyrolean, but W. Monical (to TGM 10/16) identifies it as from Mirecourt, late 19th C.; back and ribs of French field maple; fingerboard marquetry poorly done; carved head after 16th C portrait of Tieffenbrucker, as used on inexpensive violins from Mirecourt and Saxony; in general, a fanciful design with barely playable geometry.