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1687 - Violin "Ole Bull"

Soundboard in one piece that widens towards the treble side, hemmed with inlay diamond and small circles of ivory in black stucco. Back of one piece of curly maple to large curl ddescending to the right, hemmed with inlaid diamonds and small circles of ivory on black stucco. Ribs and scroll decorated with plant shoots engraved and filled with black mastic.

  • 1687, Cremona
  • Original
  • 35.6 cm
  • Washington (USA), Smithsonian Institution Museum
  • Letter by Alfred E. Hill, London, March 16, 1926, to Paul Kochansky; Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., Cincinnati, November 20, 1935; Jacques Français, New York, December 19, 1967
  • Ole Bull; Paul Kochánski; Iso Briselli 1935/51
  • Ole Bull 1844/61; John Hart (London) 1861; C. H. C. Plowden 1861/67; Joseph Hulse (Cheshire) 1867/83; W.E. Hill & Sons 1883; Charles James Oldham (Brighton) 1883/1912; W.E. Hill & Sons 1912; Paul Kochansky's father-in-law 1912; Paul Kochánsky 1912/35; Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. 1935; Samuel G. Fels (Philadelphia) 1935/50; Iso Briselli 1950/51; William Moennig & Son (Philadelphia) 1951; Dr. Donald Haff (Northampton, PA) 1951; Jacques Français; David Lloyd Kreeger (Washington, D.C.) 1981; Jacques Français 1981; Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod 1981/97; Smithsonian Institution Museum 1997
  • S. a. 1883; Hart 1885; S. a. 1892 (II); Hill 1902; Doring 1938; Doring 1945; S. a. 1951 (VIII); Français 1985; Goodkind 1972; Sacconi 2000; Axelrod 2002; AA. VV. 2011; Thöne-Röhrmann 2011
creato:giovedì 12 dicembre 2013
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017