Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Brescia, 1600, the 'Joyce'

Viola: 43288

FIT TO SCREEN FULL SIZE

Labeled, "Gio. Paolo Maggini in Brescia."

The head later.

Back: One-piece cut on the slab of irregular curl

Top: of prominent open grain

Scroll: plain, from a later period

Ribs: of wood similar to back

Varnish: Orange-brown

Length of back: 42.6 cm

Upper bouts: 19.6 cm

Middle bouts: 12.88 cm

Lower bouts: 23.97 cm

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Notes:

One of the instruments exhibited in Brescia in June, 2007 at the "Gio Paolo Maggini Secoli di dettagli" exhibition.

Provenance

until 1885	Joyce
until 1962	W. E. Hill & Sons
from 1962	Justice Lionel Jellinek
in 2007	Fondazione Pro Canale - Milano

Dendrochronology report: John C. Topham, Surrey (2013) Dating the youngest tree ring to 1386.
Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London (1962) "We consider this viola one of the finest existing examples of Maggini's work and it is in its original i.e. uncut . . . For many years the instrument was in the Joyce collection which was dispersed about 1885."

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Christie's Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, November 20, 1984, London, Christie's, Christie's, London (illustrated)
Gio Paolo Maggini, Exhibition - Brescia, Italy, 2007
Gio: Paolo Maggini in Brescia (exhibition catalog), nuovesettimanebaroche, Brescia (illustrated)
Liutai in Brescia: 1520-1724, Eric Blot, Eric Blot Edizioni, Cremona (illustrated)
Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst (8th Edition), Hamma & Co., Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven (illustrated)
Patronage and investment in fine musical instruments, Fondazione Pro Canale, Milan (illustrated)
Private Papers
The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)
W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive (illustrated)