Gaetano Chiocchi

Violin maker
(1814 – c. 1881)

Gaetano Chiocchi (1814–c.1881) worked in Padua, roughly halfway between Merlara and Venice, at a moment when Venetian violin making itself had nearly died out. His instruments — good but characteristically large and flat, built on a Maggini model — are distinguished by a five-ply double purfling he used often enough that it became something of a personal signature. That signature outlived him ...Read More in the work of the Degani family: Domenico Degani, his slightly younger contemporary working nearby in Merlara, was largely self-taught but is thought to have absorbed some influence from Chiocchi's example, and a generation later Domenico's grandson Giulio Degani directly borrowed Chiocchi's five-ply purfling technique for his own instruments during the Montagnana period of the family workshop. Read Less

Price History

- The auction record for this maker is $51,000 in Oct 2010, for a violin.
- 11 auction price results.

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