Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', Cremona, 1735, the 'Chardon'
Small Violin: 40421
Back: One-piece with lively flame slanting to the left
Top: of even, well-defined grain
Scroll: a flat shield-shaped finial bearing a double-headed eagle and crowned shield
Ribs: of wood similar to back
Varnish: Red
Length of back: 23.95 cm
Upper bouts: 11.35 cm
Middle bouts: 7.55 cm
Lower bouts: 13.95 cm
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Notes:
A violino piccolo.The Schambach-Kaston Collection of Musical Instruments, Richard T. Rephann, The Schambach-Kaston Collection of Musical Instruments, New Haven
"This instrument is perhaps the best preserved extant Cremonese instrument. It survives with all its original fittings, the varnish has never been retouched, and one readily forms the impression that the instrument was never played. As the violino poccolo was out of fashion at the time this one was finished, this impression may be accurate."
The Schambach-Kaston Collection of Musical Instruments, Richard T. Rephann, The Schambach-Kaston Collection of Musical Instruments, New Haven
Provenance
| in 1931 | Joseph Chardon |
| until 1969 | Madame Chanot-Chardon |
| from 1969 | Hans Schambach |
| in 1975 | Henryk Kaston |
| ... | ... |
| in 1985 and until 1988 | Schambach-Kaston Collection, Yale University |
| from 1988 | Suntory Limited |
| from 1999 | Osaka College of Music |
References
Ancêtres du Violon et du Violoncelle. Volume 2, Laurent Grillet, Charles Schmid, Paris (illustrated)- Cremona 1730-1750: the Olympus of Violin Making, Christopher Reuning, editor, Consorzio Liutai Antonio Stradivari, Cremona (illustrated)
- The Schambach-Kaston Collection of Musical Instruments, Richard T. Rephann, Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments, New Haven (illustrated)
- The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family, W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. Hill, William E. Hill & Sons, London, 1931