DHV:
56
Tourin ID:
BENT 1 [GAL 3]
1620
Treble
Henry
Jaye
# of Strings:
6
Place Made:
GB, London (Southwark)
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB, Oxford
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Private collection
Head:
Open scroll
Catalog Number:
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Label Text:
Henry Jay in / Southwark / 1620 [handwritten; plus a modern copy]
Measurements:
Body Length:
37.9
String Length:
35
Rib Depth:
5
Upper Width:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
18
13.3
22.3
Previous Owner:
Thurston Dart (in 1959); Marco Pallis (in 1951)
Information Source:
TGM visit 10/01; Fleming 2001: VME 06
Literature:
Photographs:
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Fleming 2007, p. 28 (JP 015); Fleming 2001: VME 06; IAML-Galpin 1959, p. 273; Galpin Society 1951, #3
Fleming 2001: VME F06 (front, body only), L33 (front) [both color]; Ashbee 1992, dust jacket (bass C-hole [color]); [by TGM: FB+S, rosette (color)]; [unpublished, in Heale Archive, on display in 1951: front 3/4]
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Ribs cut down; new neck. 5-piece table with double purfling and replacement oval rosette (very open pattern). 2-piece back with no purfling, once folded but no longer. Varnish quite dark, reddish and shiny. Fleming 2001: 7-piece table with double purfling and replacement rose, back and ribs cut down; neck and head not original; dimensions 37.6, 18.1/13.1/22.1, 5.1, -. IAML 1959 dimensions: 37.7, 18.2/-/22.2, 5.0, -.