Vincenzo Postiglione II

Violin maker
(1835 – 1916)

By the 1880s Vincenzo Postiglione II had become the leading maker in Naples, a position owed at least as much to shrewd business sense as to skill at the bench — his two real rivals for the title, Alfonso della Corte and Vincenzo Gagliano, both died in 1884 and 1886 respectively, clearing the field just as his own reputation ...Read More was taking off. That reputation had been built from a shop he'd opened around 1855 in the Spanish Quarter, close enough to walk to the workshop of Giuseppe Desiato, a fellow maker roughly his own generation. Both men, as it happens, likely passed through the same training ground: Vincenzo Jorio's workshop, which Postiglione entered as a young man in the late 1840s, probably after some earlier grounding from his own father (also, confusingly, named Vincenzo). Even the arrival of a genuinely gifted younger rival, Giovanni Pistucci, in the later 1880s did little to shake Postiglione's standing — a standing eventually passed on to his own long-serving pupil and successor, Alfredo Contino. Read Less

Price History

- The auction record for this maker is $130,231 in Oct 2011, for a cello.
- 110 auction price results.

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