Fine Musical Instruments Wednesday 22 May 2013 at 11am Knightsbridge, London Fine Musical Instruments Wednesday 22 May 2013 at 11am Knightsbridge, London Bonhams Enquiries Customer Services Please see back of catalogue Montpelier Street Director of Department Monday to Friday for Notice to Bidders Knightsbridge Philip Scott 8.30am to 6pm London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3855 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 New bidders must also provide proof www.bonhams.com [email protected] of identity when submitting bids. Illustrations Failure to do this may result in your Viewing Specialist Front cover: Lot 149 bids not being processed. 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Terminology by The instrument is believed by Bonhams to be made by the maker named in the description. ascribed to A traditional attribution with which we do not necessarily agree. attributed to An opinion which may be traditional, indicating a probable maker’s identity or date of manufacture of an instrument in whole or in part. school of The instrument is in our opinion by a later or contemporary follower of the maker indicated, or is in the style of instruments associated with the area indicated. workshop of In our opinion the instrument is executed in the basic style of the maker and possibly under his direct supervision. labelled The instrument is not in our opinion by the maker indicated but merely bears (also stamped, his name. In some cases the instrument may be a later copy or is modelled inscribed, etc.) after the maker indicated. L.O.B. Length of back, excluding button. Clearance during the Sale A storage charge of £3.60 per day after Wednesday 12 June 2013. 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Cataloguing Please note the figure in brackets after the description gives the number of items within the lot e.g. Violin, Bow and case = (3) Contents Spinet 1 Guitars 2 Woodwind and Brass 11 Violins Part I 13 Violas 64 Violin Bows 77 Ephemera 131 Viola and Bass Bows 132 Cello Bows 137 Basses 145 Cellos 149 Violins Part II 184 Spinets 1Y An English Bentside Spinet by Benjamin Slade, London, circa 1700 Benjamin Slade was born around 1669 and apprenticed to James Aland Inscribed on the jackrail; Benjamin Slade Faciebat, London length in 1684 and became Free of the Joiners Company in 1698. He later 1655mm (65 3/16in) The case interior, jackrail above the soundboard worked with Joseph Tisseran, a French Harpsichord maker who came to and keyboard area are exuberantly and profusely decorated with syca- England circa 1690. Slade is recorded in an advertisement in the London more and walnut marquetry incorporating repeated songbirds in pairs Courant for 21 August 1727 as “harpsichord maker in ordinary” to the and alone, of varying sizes, with acanthus thickets bordered by continu- Royal Household and probably worked in the West End of London rather ous peak and sphere margins with some contrasting scorching; the four than the City. and a quarter octave keyboard (72cms)GG/BB-d’’’ of ebony, the arcaded natural ends of embossed black trefoil paper, the accidentals skunktail Literature; lower two doubled, the walnut case of an aged light brown colour with Boalch; Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord (1995 p.632) referred pierced naturalistic brass accessories all on a later eighteenth century to as “Slade B 1700.” turned, pinned walnut stand. (2) James P; Early Keyboard Instruments (1930 p.110 )Plate XXX. £10,000 - 15,000 Beurmann A; Harpsichords and More, 2012 OLMS Hildesheim Zurich US$15,000 - 23,000 New York. €12,000 - 18,000 Bonhams; London FMIA November 2004 lot 23; 11254. 4 | Bonhams Guitars and Mandolins 2 A six string Classical Guitar by Hermann Hauser II, Reisbach, Ba- varia, 1959, No. 661 Labelled by the maker, Hermann Hauser, Kunstwerkstatte fur Intrumen- tenbau, Siten-Spinnerei, 1959, Reisbach/Vils Length of back 485mm (19 1/8in) overall length 978mm, the back and ribs of vibrant rosewood with green and white marginal inlay decoration, the table of narrow grain, widening on the flanks, with exuberant concentric soundhole decora- tion, the open head with matching purfling decoration and machine turners and rollers, well preserved, in case. (2) £20,000 - 30,000 US$31,000 - 46,000 €23,000 - 35,000 A similar later example is illustrated in ‘The Classical Guitar; The Com- plete History’, Outline Press, London, 1997, p. 60-61. The above maker was favoured by Julian Bream CBE and Pepe Romero, along with many other notable players. Fine Musical Instruments | 5 3 3 3 5Y A Spanish Guitar by Jose Maria Recio Beltran, Cadiz, circa 1850 A six string Italian Guitar by Gennaro Fabricatore, Naples, 1812 Labelled Anode 18... Jose Recio, Calle de ..., En Cadiz ... Length of Labelled Gennaro Fabricatore, Anno 1812, Napoli, Strada Giacomo, No. back 465mm (18 5/16in) the spruce front with circular inlaid wood and 87, Length of back 441mm (17 3/8in) the back and ribs of fruitwood mother of pearl decoration around soundhole, the back and ribs of with triangular oak inlay, with carved face at top back, the table of maple with vertical alternating inlaid rosewood and lightwood decora- spruce with ivory and ebony inlay around circular soundhole, the head tion, brass rollers with later tuners, use wear and restoration, in green and neck of stained darkwood with vertical ivory inlay, use wear and canvas case. (2) restorations, as seen. (1) £1,500 - 2,000 £1,000 - 1,500 US$2,300 - 3,100 US$1,500 - 2,300 €1,800 - 2,300 €1,200 - 1,800 Information on this maker can be found in ‘The Vihuela de Mano and 6 The Spanish Guitar’, by Jose L. Romanillos Vega and Marian Harris Win- A six string Guitar circa 1880 spear, The Sanguino Press, 2002, p. 326. Labelled Jose Ferreira Sanhudo, ... da Banharia No. 49 e 49, ..