di Stradivari Antonio

1721 - Violin "Lady Blunt"

Soundboard of spruce to medium brain well defined. Back of two pieces of curly maple on medium curl, glued in a herringbone pattern with apex at the bottom. Ribs of curly maple to broad curl. Scroll of curly maple to broad curl with edges blacks. Original neck, with iscription P.S. in the mortise. Red-brown-gold varnish.

  • 1721, Cremona
  • Antonius Stradiuarius Faciebat Cremonensis Anno 1721 AS (original)
  • 35,7 cm
  • 16,8 cm
  • 20,9 cm
  • Tokyo (J), Nippon Music Foundation
  • Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris, November 28, 1864; W. E. Hill & Sons, London, January 23, 1941; W. E. Hill & Sons, London, September 18, 1959; W. E. Hill & Sons, London, June 29, 1971; W.E. Hill, Havensfields, Buckinghamshire, July 21, 2008
  • 1864, J. B. Vuillaume (Paris): chain replacement and extension of the original handle.
  • Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris) 1860/64; Lady Anne Isabelle Nöel Blun 1864/95; Charles Withers & Emil Hamma 1895; Charles F. Edler (Frankfurt) 1895/96; W.E. Hill & Sons 1896; Baron Johann Knoop 1896/1900; W.E. Hill & Sons 1900/01; Johann Kruse 1901; J. E. Street (Caterham) 1913; W.E. Hill & Sons 1913/15; Richard Bennett (Southport, Lancashire) 1915/29; W.E. Hill & Sons 1929/41; Robert A. Bower (Somerset) 1941; Henry Werro (Bern, Switzerland) 1941/59; W.E. Hill & Sons 1959; Sam Bloomfield 1959/71; W.E. Hill & Sons 1971; Robin Loh 1971/2000; W. E. Hill 2000; W. E. Hill 2008; Nippon Music Foundation 2008/11
  • 1987, Cremona: Capolavori di Antonio Stradivari; 2012, Oxford: Stradivarius
  • Hill 1902; Werro 1943; Doring 1950 (VII); Jalovec 1957; Henley 1961; Jalovec 1964; Lewin 1971 (III); Sotheby's 1971 (III); Goodkind 1972; Greither 1975 (VIII); Sotheby's 1985; Beare 1987; Gand 1994; Dilworth 2001(II); Reich-Gaines 2001 (III); Ingles-Dilworth 2006; AA. VV. 2012
creato:giovedì 8 marzo 2012
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017