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)

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