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François Gaviniés (ca.1683-1772) made this instrument in Bordeaux some time before moving to Paris in 1734. Although the peg-box and neck of this instrument are probably later replacements, the fingerboard may be original. Tortoiseshell fingerboards were a characteristic of Gaviniés' surviving viols.","physicalDescription":"'Belly of a single piece of pine, and back of a single piece of sycamore, both with simulated purfling [bordering] in black paint. The neck is probably a replacement, with crude pegbox and scroll both stippled and gouged in simple decoration. Modern tortoiseshell tailpiece attached to a hook-bar. Tortoiseshell fingerboard with ebony edges. Six ebony pegs and six strings. The bridge is stamped <i>PANPI</i>.'  Anthony Baines, <i>Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments</i> (London, 1998), p. 8.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Gaviniés, François","id":"A23963"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28690"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"pine","id":"AAT12620"},{"text":"sycamore","id":"AAT12357"},{"text":"tortoiseshell","id":"AAT11837"},{"text":"ebony","id":"AAT12055"}],"techniques":[{"text":"planing","id":"AAT53863"},{"text":"drilling","id":"AAT53151"},{"text":"turning","id":"AAT53158"},{"text":"edging","id":"x37785"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Planed sycamore back and sides; planed and drilled pine belly, tortoiseshell fingerboard with ebony edging; turned ebony pegs.","categories":[{"text":"Musical instruments","id":"THES48919"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2011EW4536"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES341079"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES299394"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Treble viol","id":""}],[{"text":"bow (chordophone component)","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Bordeaux","id":"x32626"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"about 1730","earliest":"1730-01-01","latest":"1730-12-31"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"61","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"total","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"33.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"length of body","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"32","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"string length","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"7.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"16","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"upper bout","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"20","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"lower bout","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Measurements taken from Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments. (London, 1998), p. 8.","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'[Gavini]niés/ [Bor]deaux/ f ..","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"In August 1989 Tim Miller (V&A Furniture Conservation) found what he described as \"a fragment of paper beneath a pine block glued by a19th c. repairer to the  back plate. The fragment was used to fill a gap\"."},{"content":"PANPI","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Stamped on the bridge of the viol, presumably the mark of an otherwise unknown 19th century maker of violins or violin-bridges."}],"objectHistory":"This instrument was part of the collections of Carl Engel (1818-1882) and was bought by the Museum in 1882 for £5-10- 0 (£5.50)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"French, sycamore back and sides, pine belly and tortoiseshell finger board, François Gaviniés, about 1730.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments. (London, 1998), p. 8"}],"production":"This instrument closely resembles a treble viol made by François Gaviniés in Paris in 1744, now in the collections of the Musée des Instruments in Paris. A fragmentary piece of paper was found under a repair of the V&A's instrument, stating that it was made by Gaviniés in Bordeaux, although the date is missing. (See note on 'Marks/ Subject'.) Gaviniés was married in Bordeaux in 1723 and moved to Paris in 1734. 1730 seems a plausible date.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["164-1882","164A-1882"],"accessionNumberNum":"164","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1882,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Treble viol","bow (chordophone component)"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-19","recordCreationDate":"2008-12-09","availableToBook":true}}