Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', Cremona, 1735, the 'King'

Violin: 40407

FIT TO SCREEN FULL SIZE

Back: Two-piece; from the same log as the "Diable" and "Haddock"

Scroll: a twin of the "Haddock"

Length of back: 35.15 cm

Upper bouts: 16.5 cm

Middle bouts: 11 cm

Lower bouts: 20.5 cm

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Notes:

The King's edges are broader than the D'Egville and Plowden giving a bolder appearance and the ff holes placed upright, making the smaller holes of the ff's further apart and their-by contributing to the making of a really powerful sonorous instrument.

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Provenance

	Luigi Tarisio
until 1857	James Goding
in 1857	Sold by Christie & Manson
in 1857	Sold by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
1857-1881	Vicomte Frédéric de Janzé
in 1881	Sold by David Laurie
1881-1882	John Adam
in 1882	Sold by David Laurie
1882-1904	Baron Johann Knoop
in 1904	Sold by W. E. Hill & Sons
1904-1925	Richard C. Baker
in 1925	Sold by W. E. Hill & Sons
from 1925	Richard Bennett
in 1931	Eric H. Rose
until 1955	W. E. Hill & Sons
1955-1965	Zlatko Balokovic
...	...
from 1965 and in 2002	Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Photographs

Certificates & Documents

Dendrochronology report: Peter Klein, Hamburg (1998) Dating the youngest tree ring to 1722; wood of the treble side matches the wood used for the 1744c "Doyen" (ID=436).
Dendrochronology report: Peter Klein, Hamburg Dating the youngest tree ring to 1722.

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References

The Strad, October, 1994, Stewart Pollens, Orpheus, London (illustrated)
Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesú (2 volumes), Carlos Chiesa, John Dilworth, Roger Graham Hargrave, Stewart Pollens, Duane Rosengard & Eric Wen, Peter Biddulph, London (illustrated)
The Strad, September, 2000, Roger Hargrave, Orpheus, London (illustrated)
The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family, W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. Hill, William E. Hill & Sons, London, 1931 (illustrated)
The Violin Masterpieces of Guarneri del Gesù - Exhibition, Peter Biddulph, Peter Biddulph, London (illustrated)
Violins & Violinists, November-December, 1954, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago (illustrated)
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W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive (illustrated)