di Amati Nicolò

1642 - Violin

The top is of spruce of medium grain, copy made in the XX Century. The back is two-piece of maple of medium curl, almost horizontal and slightly descending to the left. The ribs are of wood similar to back. The scroll is original, of maple of medium curl, inserted in the later maple pegbox. The varnish is golden - brown. 

  • 1642, Cremona
  • Nicolaus Amatus Cremonen. Hieronymi / Fil. ac Antonij Nepos Fecit. 1642
  • 35.2 cm
  • Letter by Jacques Français, New York, 8 October 1972: which states that the instrument is all original, but the top.
  • Sotheby's 1979
creato:martedì 26 marzo 2013
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017