1539/77 - Viola "Witten"

Originally a tenor viola, the belly is of spruce, narrow-grained in the center and widening towards the edges. The back is two-piece of maple of relatively narrow curl at the top and medium curl at the bottom, and bearing a gilt monogram surmounted by a marquis coronet on a light-blue ground surrounded by a gilt motto. It is also decorated with six gilt fleur-de-lys in the corners. The ribs are of maple, of medium curl, decorated and inscribed in gilt with the same motto. The original scroll of maple of faint medium curl, is joined to a new peg box. The varnish is orange, that has been partly restored on the belly.

  • Cremona, 1539/77
  • 18,7 cm
  • Andreas Amati fecit Cremonen 1553
  • 40,8 cm
  • 12,75 cm
  • 24,2 cm
  • 5,09 cm
  • 3,71 cm
  • 5,99 cm
  • 3,92 cm
  • 12,2 cm
  • Vermillion, South Dakota (USA) - National Music Museum
  • NMM 3370
  • W. E. Hill & Sons, London, June 28, 1912
  • W.E. Hill & Sons; 1922, Charles B. Lutyens; 1959, Tom Barber, Jr.; E. R. Voigt; Hope Hambourg; 1981 J.& A. Beare; 1982, Laurence C. Witten; 1984, National Music Museum (University of South Dakota)
  • 2005, Cremona: Un corpo alla ricerca dell'anima: Andrea Amati e la nascita del violino 1505-2005; 2007, Cremona: 2007, Cremona: Andrea Amati. Opera Omnia, Les Violons du Roi
  • Beare 1925; Broadley 1925; S.a. 1959; Christie's 1959; Campbell 1981; Sotheby's 1981; Witten 1082; Mosconi-Witten 1982; Downie Banks 1986; Larson 1988; Beare 1991; Beare-Carlson-Mosconi 1991; Riley 1991; AA. VV. 2005 (II); Ingles-Dilworth 2006; Cacciatori 2007; Muradov 2015
creato:giovedì 8 marzo 2012
modificato:sabato 8 giugno 2019