DHV:
1629
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Edward
Lewis
Date:
1720 C
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Cello
Current Location:
J
Tokyo ?
No. of Strings:
-4
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
74.3
String Length:
70.2
Rib Depth:
13.5
Upper Width:
36.8
Middle Width:
28
Bottom Width:
45.3
Information
Source:
Herzog 2003, GB-10
Literature:
Herzog 2003, GB-10; Sotheby’s 3/21/95, lot 65; Christie’s 3/18/92, lot 207 [not seen]
Photographs:
Herzog 2003, GB-10; Sotheby’s 3/21/95, lot 65 (F+B)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Bonhams, 2005/10/31, lot ???]
Arched back with fold; pointed corners, rounded shoulders, and overhanging edges. Double purfling on table and back. Neck and head not original. Sotheby’s: “Follower of Barak Norman: A Violoncello, English, circa 1720”, sold with a 1994 certificate from J & A Beares, Ltd.; Christie’s (per Herzog): “may originally have had five, or even six strings”; Herzog: by Edward Lewis II.