Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris, 1863
Violin: 74169
Labeled, "Jean Baptiste Vuillaume à Paris, 3, rue Demours-Ternes."
Inscription at inside back, "63."
Messiah model. Bearing its original neck with a unique Messiah inspired neckset.
Back: in two pieces of quarter-cut maple with medium-width flame descending from the centre.
Top: in two pieces of spruce with narrow grain expanding towards the edges.
Scroll: of similar wood to the back.
Ribs: of similar wood to the back.
Varnish: of a golden orange reddish brown colour.
Length of back: 35.7 cm
Upper bouts: 17.0 cm
Middle bouts: 11.4 cm
Lower bouts: 20.9 cm
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Provenance
| in 1989 | Anonymous |
| until 2015 | Anonymous |
| in 2015 | Sold by Tarisio |
| 2015-2017 | Anonymous |
| in 2017 | Sold by Tarisio Private Sales |
| from 2017 | Current owner |
Certificates & Documents
- Dendrochronology report: Peter Ratcliff, London (2015) Dendrochronology dates the latest ring of bass and treble sides as 1775.
Letter: Étienne Vatelot, Paris (1992)
Letter certificate: Hans Weisshaar, Hollywood, CA (1989)- Certificate: Emil Herrmann, New York (photocopy), New York, NY (1927) Referring to the violin as Ex-Prince Trubetskoi and to an Albert Caressa certificate from 29th April 1926.
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