1574 ? - Small Violin

The belly is one-piece of spruce of irregular grain, medium grained on the left, wide-grained in the center and narrowing toward the right. The back is two-piece of maple, with a light horizontal curl, with upper and lower position pins. The ribs are of curly maple, the one-piece lower rib is marked with the number “90” and the letters “WC” near the end button. Scroll and neck are original. The varnish is golden.

  • 1574 ?, Cremona
  • Etichetta manoscritta: Andrea Amati in / Cremona MDLXXIIII, non originale
  • 15,89 cm
  • 10,64 cm
  • 19,7 cm
  • 2,71 cm
  • 10,5 cm
  • 2,86 cm
  • 3,86 cm
  • 2,93 cm
  • 2,58 cm
  • Vermillion, South Dakota (USA) - National Music Museum
  • NMM 5260
  • The instrument has been sold in London, in the auction house Phillip's, November 21, 1991
  • William Corbett (London); William Marshall 1805; Mr. Bowles 1805; Hester S. Bowles 1899; W.E. Hill & Sons 1917; Richard Bennett (Southport, Lancashire); W.E. Hill & Sons 1991; National Music Museum (University of South Dakota 1991
  • 2007, Cremona: Andrea Amati. Opera Omnia, Les Violons du Roi
  • Hamma 1931; Mucchi 1940; Witten 1982 (I); Mosconi-Witten 1984; Downie Banks 1986; Draley 1988; Draley 1989; Beare-Carlson-Mosconi 1991; S.a. 1991; S.a. 1992; Cacciatori 2007
creato:sabato 11 agosto 2012
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017