1696 - Viola "Spanish court"

Soundboard of spruce with double purfling decorated of lozenges and discs in ivory black mastic. Back of one piece of curly maple at medium-narrow curl descending toward right, with  purfling decorated of ivory lozenges and discs in black mastic. Ribs wood similar to that of the fund, drawn in black with branches inhabited to animals. Scroll of maple decorated with branches engraved and filled with the black mastic. Golden varnish.

  • 1696, Cremona
  • Madrid (E), Palacio Real
  • Paolo Stradivari 1772; Padre Brambilla 1772; Don Carlos (later King Charles IV) 1772/1812; Koliker 1819; Alexander Rivaz 1819/25; Sir William Curtis 1825/29; John Adam 1876/81; Duc de Camposelice 1881/87; Isabella Eugenia, Duchess of Camposelice 1887/91; W.E. Hill & Sons 1891; Charles James Oldham (Brighton) 1891; Baron Johann Knoop; W.E. Hill & Sons 1913; Richard Bennett (Southport, Lancashire) 1913; W.E. Hill & Sons 1925/51; Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid 1951
  • Sandys-Forster 1864; Hill 1902; Balfoort 1945; S. a. 1951 (XII); Henley 1961; Goodkind 1975; Sainati 1993; AA. VV. 2011
  • 2011, Cremona: Antonio Stradivari. L'Estetica sublime
creato:lunedì 4 giugno 2012
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017