Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Milan, 1751, the 'Sametini'

Violin: 42409

FIT TO SCREEN FULL SIZE

Labeled, "Joannes Baptista Guadagnini Placentinus fecit Mediolani 1751."

Back: One-piece of medium curl ascending from left to right

Top: of fine grain in the center, opening out towards the flanks

Scroll: of curl similar to back

Ribs: of curl similar to back

Varnish: Red-brown

Length of back: 35.25 cm

Upper bouts: 16.6 cm

Middle bouts: 11.25 cm

Lower bouts: 20.3 cm

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Provenance

	Sold by John Hornsteiner
until 1900	George Hart
from 1900	H. G. Walter
until 1944	Leon Sametini
until 1946	Robert L. Sametini
in 1949	Sold by Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.
1949-1966	Walter Spolar
in 1966	Sold by Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.
in 1966	Fred Ottenheimer
from 1966	Florence Gay
in 2008	The Roman Goronok Company
from 2008	Current owner

Leon Sametini

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The Strad 1998 Calendar, Orpheus Publications, London (illustrated)
Four Centuries of Violin Making: Fine Instruments from the Sotheby's Archive, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, Boston (illustrated)
Private Archives - 10842
Private Archives - 1610
Private Papers
Sotheby's Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, March 21, 1995, London, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, London (illustrated)
Sotheby's Photo Archive
Violins & Violinists, September, 1943, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago (illustrated)
The Guadagnini Family of Violin Makers, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago (illustrated)
The Roman Goronok Company