NMM 3352. Bass viola da gamba by Johannes Florenus Guidantus, Bologna, 1728. Printed label: Joannes Florenus Guidantus, / Fecit Bononiae Anno. 1728. According to Laurence Witten, this viol was produced during a period (ca. 1685-1730) "when a comparatively small and shortlived demand for viols (of powerful violin-like construction) seems to have been created in Italian court orchestras by northern music and/or musicians." Ex colls.: Bedetti, Bologna; Silvestre family, Lyons; William E. Hill & Sons, London; E. J. Payne, England; Alexander Mackay-Smith, New York; and Emil Herrman, Stepney, Connecticut. Witten-Rawlins Collection, 1984.

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