Jacob Stainer, Absam, 1654
Violin: 40696
Bearing a manuscript label, "Jacobus Stainer in Absom . prope Oenipontum mpia 1654."
Back: Two-piece
Length of back: 35.2 cm
Upper bouts: 16.3 cm
Middle bouts: 10.6 cm
Lower bouts: 20.1 cm
Provenance
until 1890 | Chanot & Chardon |
from 1890 | Henriette Maugar |
in 1939 | Sold by W. E. Hill & Sons |
from 1939 | Dr. S. Hosiasson |
Sold by Max Möller & Son | |
Sold by Hamma & Co. | |
from 1972 and in 1989 | Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz |
Certificates & Documents
- Dendrochronology report: Micha Beuting & Peter Klein (2003) Dating the youngest tree ring to from 1639.
- Certificate: Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (1972)
- Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London (1939)
- Certificate: Chanot & Chardon, Paris (1890)
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References
- 100 Jahre Berliner Musikinstrumenten Museum 1888-1988, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, Berlin (illustrated)
- Geigen aus Venedig, Aloys Greither, Werner Dausien, Hanau (illustrated)
- Jakob Stainer: Leben und Werk des Tiroler Meisters, Walter Senn & Karl Roy, Verlag E. Bochinsky, Frankfurt (illustrated)
- The Strad, May, 2001, Hans Reiner, Orpheus, London (illustrated)
- Reid School of Music | Edinburgh College of Art