DHV:
655
Tourin ID:
NIGGE 2
Size:
Bass
Label Text:
Place Made:
F, Paris
Maker:
Antoine
Despont
Date:
1617
[Antoine Despont, Paris, 1617]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
NL, Culemborg
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Private collection
No. of Strings:
7
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Previous Owner:
[cellist in Frankfurt radio orchestra, -1998]; Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (in 1977)
Measurements:
Body Length:
65
String Length:
65
Rib Depth:
13.5
Upper Width:
31.5
Middle Width:
23
Bottom Width:
37
Information Source:
Owner to TGM, 9/04 + 2/05 + 1/08; van der Velden 2000; G Niggemann to PT 3/77
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Auctions:
Comments:
On owner's website (FB+S, head S [color]); van der Velden 2015 (head 3/4 and side [color]); van der Velden 2002 (side 1/2, two views); van der Velden 2000 (front, partial view)
van der Velden 2015 (Dialogues); van der Velden 2013 (Images); van der Velden 2012 (Hommages); van der Velden 2002 (Couperin); van der Velden 2000 (Marais)
Elaborately carved tailpiece, similar to one seen in Forqueray portrait. Neck is original, but fingerboard is new, to reverse an earlier conversion to 6-string set up; open-carved back of pegbox. Restored by Lambert Houniet.