Gasparo Bertolotti 'da Salò', Brescia, 1560
Violin: 44458
Back: Two-piece
Scroll: from another violin by the same maker
Length of back: 35.8 cm
Upper bouts: 16.15 cm
Middle bouts: 11 cm
Lower bouts: 20.2 cm
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Notes:
"The black strips of purfling are in ebony, and the light strip is in wood similar to boxwood."Liutai in Brescia: 1520-1724, Eric Blot, Liutai in Brescia: 1520-1724, Cremona
One of the instruments exhibited in Brescia in June, 2007 at the "Gio Paolo Maggini Secoli di dettagli" exhibition.
Provenance
| until 1968 | Ealing Strings |
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| in 1991 | La Scala Theatre Museum, Milan |
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| in 2007 | Chi-Mei Culture Foundation |
Certificates & Documents
- Dendrochronology report: John C. Topham, Surrey (2007) Dating the youngest tree ring to 1505.
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References
The Strad, January, 1969, London (illustrated)- Gio Paolo Maggini, Exhibition - Brescia, Italy, 2007
- Gio: Paolo Maggini in Brescia (exhibition catalog), nuovesettimanebaroche, Brescia (illustrated)
- La collezione di strumenti musicali del Museo Teatrale alla scala, Guido Bizzi, Silvana Editoriale (illustrated)
- Liutai in Brescia: 1520-1724, Eric Blot, Eric Blot Edizioni, Cremona (illustrated)
- W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive (illustrated)
The Strad, January, 1969, London (illustrated)
