Viola da Gamba Society of America

1712

Treble

Christophe

Chiquelier

# of Strings:

6

Place Made:

F, Paris

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

F, Paris

Sound Holes:

C

Collection:

Musée de la musique

Head:

Scroll

Catalog Number:

E.0278 (formerly C.153)

Label Text:

Cristofo Giquelier a Paris 1712

Measurements:

String Length:

38

Total Length:

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Body Length:

36

Upper Width:

17

Rib Depth:

8

Middle Width:

12

Bottom Width:

21.5

Previous Owner:

Louis Clapisson, Paris, -1865

Information Source:

Museum’s website; P. Jacquier to Tourin, 9/79; PT visits 6/77 & 9/78

Literature:

Photographs:

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

Chouquet 1884, p. 34

On museum’s website (FB+S, front 7/8, head side)

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Table and back extensively decorated in “laque de Chine noire”. Museum website gives maker’s name as Chiquelier but says label reads “Giquelier”; Tourin read label as “Chiquelier”; Gétreau 1966 gives name as “Christophe Chiquelier”; Chouquet read it as “Cristofo Giquelier” (therefore also thus in Lütgendorff amd Vannes) and called it a “viole bâtarde”.