1683 - Small violin "Cipriani Potter"

Soundboard of spruce bordered with inlaid lozenges and small squares in black ivory mastic. Back of one piece of curly maple to broad curl descending to the right, bordered with inlaid diamonds and small squares in black ivory mastic. Ribs and scroll decorated with plant shoots engraved and filled with black mastic. Neck original modernized. Golden varnish.

  • 1683, Cremona
  • Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensi / Faciebat Anno 1683 (with a printed date of 166-, but the year "83" has been superimposed by hand)
  • 33.9 cm
  • 15.3 cm
  • 10.3 cm
  • 19.2 cm
  • Oxford (GB), The Ashmolean Museum - Hill Collection
  • W. E. Hill & Sons, London
  • Dendrochronological analysis by John C. Topham, Surrey. Youngest ring is 1677.
  • Este family (Modena); Cipriani Potter; W.E. Hill & Sons 1946; Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Hill Collection 1946
  • Hill 1902; Goodkind 1972; AA. VV. 1985 (II); Charlton 1985; Boyden 1989; Chiesa-Rosengard 1998; Whistler 2008; Brandmair-Greiner - 2010; AA. VV. 2011; Carlson 2011; Milnes 2011; AA. VV. 2012
creato:domenica 3 giugno 2012
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017