Lorenzo & Tomaso Carcassi

Violin maker
(ﬂ. 1750 – 1790)

Lorenzo & Tomaso Carcassi worked both together and individually as pupils of Giovanni Baptista Gabrielli, achieving varying standards of finish and accuracy, generally following a high-arched Stainer model that was prevalent in Florence at that time. Their scrolls were often crudely cut but featured a distinctive large eye and slender chamfers. The varnish typically had a clear thin yellow color, occasionally ...Read More appearing as a richer gold-brown. The range of quality could be quite unnerving; some work that looked coarse could be perfectly authentic, while others adhered to more classical ideas of craftsmanship and varnish depth. Read Less

Price History

- The auction record for this maker is $357,804 in Nov 2022, for a cello.
- 114 auction price results.

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