DHV:
1225
Tourin ID:
1900
Bass
Joseph & Georges
Chardon
# of Strings:
7
Place Made:
F, Paris
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA, Claremont, CA
Sound Holes:
Collection:
Pomona College Music Department
Head:
Horse
Catalog Number:
S67
Label Text:
Chardon Pere & Fils / Luthiers / Paris 1900 [printed except 00]
Measurements:
String Length:
77
Total Length:
Body Length:
71.9
Upper Width:
32.5
Rib Depth:
13.5
Middle Width:
23
Bottom Width:
36
Previous Owner:
Rymsha Vitali, Los Angeles
Information Source:
TGM visit 5/98
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Comments:
[By TGM: F+B; by curator: side (color)]
On loan to Fiske Museum. In the style of Tieffenbrucker; supposedly made for International Exposition, Paris, 1900, but not in catalogue. Soundholes unusual: each side two-part with curved-sided triangles foot-to-foot. Very elaborately inlaid back using several colors, with bearded man looking at hourglass (cf. Boyer Tieffenbrucker); flat with no fold. Ribs plain but with “picture-frame”-like moldings disguising overhang of table and back; fingerboard and (short) tailpiece also elaborately inlaid. Bridge very tall, robust interior barring, whole viol quite heavy.