Pietro Guarneri of Mantua, Mantua, 1702, the 'Schubert'
Violin: 44164
Bearing its original label, "Petrus Guarnerius Cremonensis fecit / Mantuae sub tit. Sanctae Teresiae 1702."
Back: One-piece cut on the slab of medium curl ascending from left to right
Top: of pine of medium to medium broad grain at the center narrowing towards the flanks
Scroll: of faint broad curl
Ribs: cut on the quarter, of broader curl
Varnish: Golden-brown
Length of back: 35.5 cm
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Notes:
The tailpiece bears the arms of the Guarneri family.Sotheby Parke Bernet Important Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, October 29, 1976, New York, Sotheby's, Sotheby Parke Bernet Important Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, October 29, 1976, New York, New York
Provenance
| Sold by Franz Schubert | |
| until 1904 | Franz Schubert, Jr. |
| from 1904 | Wilhelm Hermann Hammig |
| in 1934 | Rudolph Kruger |
| ... | ... |
| in 1961 | Sold by Rembert Wurlitzer Inc. |
| ... | ... |
| 1969-1976 | Arnold Gingrich |
| in 1976 | Current owner |
Certificates & Documents
Certificate: Rembert Wurlitzer Inc., New York, NY (1969)- Certificate: Rembert Wurlitzer Inc., New York, NY (1961)
- Certificate: W. H. Hammig & Co., Berlin (1936)
Letter: W. H. Hammig & Co., Berlin (1936)
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References
A Thousand Mornings of Music, Arnold Gingrich, Crown Publishers, New York (illustrated)- Private Papers
- Sotheby Parke Bernet Important Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, October 29, 1976, New York, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, New York (illustrated)
- Sotheby's Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, June 9, 1987, London, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, London (illustrated)
- The Classic Bowed Stringed Instruments from the Smithsonian Institution, Gakken Co., Tokyo (illustrated)