Jacob Stainer, Absam, 1672
Violin: 40019
Handwritten label, damaged and difficult to read, dated 1672.
Back: One-piece, with narrow wings added to both sides of the lower bouts
Top: Even, rather open-grain
Scroll: Original, of plain wood
Ribs: Faintly figured wood
Length of back: 35.3 cm
Upper bouts: 16.6 cm
Middle bouts: 10.62 cm
Lower bouts: 20.4 cm
Provenance
| until 1916 | W. E. Hill & Sons |
| 1916-1957 | Rev. Edward Charles Tippets |
| from 1957 | Ashmolean Museum, Hill Collection, University of Oxford |
Certificates & Documents
- Dendrochronology report: John C. Topham, Surrey Dating the youngest tree ring to 1547; the rings match the wood used for the 1564 "Charles IX" Amati (ID=98) and the 1574 "Charles IX" viola (ID=99)
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References
The Strad 1999 Calendar, Orpheus Publications, London (illustrated)- Il Legno si fa Musica, le mostre della Cassa di Risparmio, Verona (illustrated)
- Jakob Stainer: Leben und Werk des Tiroler Meisters, Walter Senn & Karl Roy, Verlag E. Bochinsky, Frankfurt (illustrated)
- Musical Instruments in the Ashmolean Museum: The Complete Collection, John Milnes, editor, Oxford Musical Instrument Publishing, Oxford (illustrated)
- Stringed Instruments: Viols, Violins, Citterns, and Guitars in the Ashmolean Museum, Harvey S. Whistler, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (illustrated)
- The Hill Collection of Musical Instruments, David D. Boyden, Oxford University Press, London (illustrated)
- Viols, Violins and Virginals, Jennifer A. Charlton, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (illustrated)