DHV:
1332
Tourin ID:
Size:
Treble ?
Label Text:
Place Made:
A, Vienna
Maker:
Anton
Posch
Date:
1709
Antony Posch / Kay Hoff Lauthen / Macher in Wien 1709
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA, Ashland, Oregon
Sound Holes:
Flame
Collection:
Southern Oregon University
No. of Strings:
6
Catalog Number:
70.177
Head:
Cupid
Previous Owner:
Jack Schuman, Phoenix, Oregon, -c. 2007; Franz Nowy, Vienna, -1970
Measurements:
Body Length:
37.5
String Length:
33.8
Rib Depth:
6.2
Upper Width:
19.5
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
23.5
Information Source:
J. Schuman to TGM, 5/02
Literature:
Photographs:
[Unpublished, from owner: F+S, head, all 3/4]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Likely a converted viola d’amore. Fingerboard and tailpiece have elaborate ivory inlay. Blindfolded Cupid head possibly 19th-C.