1701 - Violin "Ferraresi"

Soundboard of spruce, probably not original (Beare 2000). Back of two pieces of curly maple for faint broad curl, glued in a herringbone pattern with apex at the bottom. Ribs of wood similar to that of the back. Scroll probably not original (Beare 2000). Reddish-brown varnish on a golden ground.

  • 1701, Cremona
  • Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis/Faciebat Anno 1701 (fac-simile, with the handwritten note: "racomode par le eleve artiste/au 15 vingt a paris 1777")
  • 35.45 cm
  • 16.7 cm
  • 11.1 cm
  • 20.65 cm
  • (USA), Group of investors led by Brook & Seth Taube
  • Friedrich Böhm, Berlin, February 25, 1964; Association des Maitre Luthiers Suisse, May 1, 1967; Appraisal by J. & A. Beare, London, November 1, 2000; Machold Rare Violins, Bremen, Zurich, New York, Vienna, June 26, 2002
  • Dendrochronological analysis by Peter Klein, Hamburg, in 1998, that dates the youngest ring at 1684.
  • Cesare Ferraresi
  • 1777, Paris, ?
  • Roselli; Dr. Schindler (Berlin); Arthur Voss; Frau Hytrek 2000; Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod 2003; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra 2003; Group of investors led by Brook & Seth Taube 2007
  • Verband Schweizerischer Geigenbaumeister 1990; Axelrod 2002; S. a. 2004 (IV); S. a. 2007 (IV); S. a. 2007 (VI)
creato:martedì 7 gennaio 2014
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017