Giovanni Battista Ceruti, Cremona, 1800
Bass: 45118
Bearing its original label, "Jo, Baptista Ceruti Cremonensis / fecit Cremonæ 1800" and branded twice externally on the ribs with his mongram.
Back: Two-piece of slab-cut walnut
Top: Two-piece of spruce, with wings attached to the lower bouts
Scroll: Walnut
Ribs: Walnut
Varnish: Red and thick
Length of back: 108.2 cm
Upper bouts: 51.4 cm
Middle bouts: 36.3 cm
Lower bouts: 65.1 cm
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Notes:
"His [Ceruti's] large model is robust (fig. 35), recalling a Brescian form with only slightly inclined shoulders, and in fact the measurements are remarkably similar to the "Dragonetti" Maggini...."Cremonese Double Basses, Duane Rosengard, Cremonese Double Basses, Cremona
Provenance
| in 2017 | Dextra Musica |
References
Cremonese Double Basses, Duane Rosengard, Editrice Turris, Cremona (illustrated)- Looking at the Double Bass, Raymond Elgar, Stephen W. Fillo, Princeton (illustrated)