Bass Viola da Gamba ca. 1600 John Rose Most surviving viols signed by or attributed to John Rose were likely made by the younger of a father and son pair of luthiers who went by the same name, and who worked in Bridewell, London, in the sixteenth century. While John Rose senior was among the earliest known of English viol makers, his son was among the most celebrated, and regarded as "the finest of all viol makers" in Thomas Mace's Musick's Monument of 1676. This instrument, dated ca. 1600, is attributed to the younger John Rose.Description: Repeatedly altered; high arched, three-piece spruce table with wing added on left lower bout probably dates from 18th century rebuilding as a cello; table edges are doubled and purfling does not match that of the maple back and ribs which bear floral and zoomorphic decoration incised with a hot needle; ribs were cut down, then widened and doubled with cross-grain beech; two-piece back of small horizontal figure has lower wings, of which the right i