DHV:
33
Tourin ID:
BAINE 5
Size:
Bass
Label Text:
Place Made:
GB, London
Maker:
John
Pitts
Date:
1675
[Jo]hn Pitts in / [Lond]on 1675
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB, Bohortha, Cornwall
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
true
Previous Owner:
Francis Baines, London, -1999+
Measurements:
Body Length:
69
String Length:
70
Rib Depth:
11.7
Upper Width:
32
Middle Width:
23
Bottom Width:
39
Information Source:
R. Campbell to TGM, 2/09; PT visit 6/77
Literature:
MacCracken 2016, p. 200
Photographs:
MacCracken 2016, p. 197 (table ornament); Fleming 2001, L32 (table ornament); [unpublished, from Robert Foster 8-11/10: F+B body only, table ornament, label (color)]; [unpublished, in Heale Archive: back, table ornament, head back]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Campbell 2008
7-piece table with double purfling; 3-piece back with 3 groups of diamond ornaments on center piece, bas-relief V on fold, and single purfling. Table ornament matches those on DOLM 5 and FOLGER 1, by Miller; back decorations similar to Newark Museum 59.333, especially at bottom and below fold line (but not in middle). Carved pegbox; face of female head is a replacement, but tresses are original. Neck by Robert Foster, not long before 2008, “replacing a 1970s neck at wrong angle”.