Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Piacenza, 1743, the 'van Zweygberg'
Cello: 40709
Printed label, "Joannes filius Laurentji Guadadagnini fecit Placentiae 197?."
Back: Two-piece, slab-cut, with weak horizontal flaming
Top: Two-part of finely grained wood
Scroll: Plain
Varnish: Red over a yellow base
Length of back: 73.7 cm
Upper bouts: 35.4 cm
Middle bouts: 23.8 cm
Lower bouts: 43.5 cm
Provenance
| in 1943 | Lennart von Zweygberg |
| ... | ... |
| from 1963 | Lorin Bernsohn |
| from 1990 and in 2002 | Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
Known players
Martin Hornstein
Certificates & Documents
Certificate: Machold Rare Violins, Ltd, Vienna (1990) X-645.- Certificate: Rembert Wurlitzer Inc., New York, NY (1963)
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References
Masterpieces of Violin-Making: The Collection of Bowed Stringed Instruments of the Oesterreische Nationalbank, Rudolf Hopfner, Skira, Milan (illustrated)- Private Papers
- Startseite - Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)
- The Guadagnini Family of Violin Makers, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago (illustrated)
- Violins & Violinists, November, 1943, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago (illustrated)