DHV:
1233
Tourin ID:
1691
Bass
Johann
Seelos
# of Strings:
6
Place Made:
A, Linz
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
A, Vienna
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Vázquez, José
Head:
Scroll
Catalog Number:
Label Text:
Johann Seelos, in Linz, 1691
Measurements:
String Length:
70.2
Total Length:
Body Length:
71.9
Upper Width:
30.9
Rib Depth:
13
Middle Width:
22
Bottom Width:
40.5
Previous Owner:
Information Source:
Vázquez website; Sotheby’s 11/4/98, lot 153
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Montagu 1999, p. 165; Sotheby’s 11/4/98, lot 153
Vázquez website (F+B, body only [color]); Sotheby’s 11/4/98, lot 153 (front)
Sotheby’s 1998/11/04, lot 153
Back is two-piece with medium curl ascending from the joint; ribs similar; table of fine even grain; varnish golden-brown. C-holes very thin, and not perfectly symmetrical (left is more upright and positioned higher). Dendrochronological testing by Peter Klein shows youngest year-ring on table dates from 1668; both halves come from the same tree. Sotheby’s body length of 72.1 probably taken on the back; string length was then 68.9.