DHV:
1045
Tourin ID:
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17..

Bass

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# of Strings:

6

Place Made:

GB,

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

J, Hamamatsu City

Sound Holes:

F

Collection:

Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments

Head:

Female

Catalog Number:

C-0008R

Label Text:

[None]

Measurements:

String Length:

65.7

Total Length:

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Body Length:

68.1

Upper Width:

39.5

Rib Depth:

11.3

Middle Width:

23.3

Bottom Width:

37

Previous Owner:

Dorothy & Robert Rosenbaum, Scarsdale, NY, no. 285

Information Source:

Museum to TGM, 6/09; Sotheby’s 3/13/72, lot 126; [copy of Rosenbaum estate inventory seen at Boston MFA]

Literature:

Photographs:

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Auctions:

Comments:

Herzog 2003, GB-15; Wells 1973, pp. 98-99; Sotheby’s 3/13/72, lot 126

Uemura 2011 (front [color]); Herzog 2003, GB-15 (F+B); Hamamatsu 1995, p. 16 (side 1/2, from above); Sotheby’s 3/13/72, lot 126 (back); [unpublished, from museum 8/09: FB+S (color)]

Uemura 2011

Sotheby’s 1972/03/13, lot 126

Shallow-curved center bouts, very wide F-holes, no decoration on table or back. Hamamatsu 1995: Division viol (England), 1st qtr. of 18c; total length 125.0. Rosenbaum estate inventory (seen at Boston MFA): “First quarter of the 18th Century ... modern head and pegbox”. Sotheby’s: 2-piece back cut on the slab; “finely carved female head a later French addition”; length of back 69.9.