1720 - Violin

Soundboard of spruce at medium vein. Back of two pieces of curly maple with broad curl, glued in a herringbone pattern with vertex at the bottom. Ribs of curly maple with medium curl. Scroll of curly maple with faint narrow curl. Orange-brown varnish.

  • 1720, Mantua
  • 35.7 cm
  • E. Maucotel & P. Deschamps, Paris, October 12, 1949
  • "Petrus Guarnerius Filius Joseph Cremonensis fecit Venetiis, Anno 1721 (and) Sub disciplina Pietro Guarnieri, Petrus Guarnerius Cremonensis fecit Mantua sub tit. Sancta Teresiae 1720
  • According Maucotel (1949), the instrument is by Pietro Guarneri of Mantua, but completed by his grandson Pietro Guarneri of Venice.
  • Sotheby's 1985 (II)

creato:domenica 30 giugno 2013
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017