Carlo Antonio Lorenzo Bergonzi II, Cremona, 1796, the 'Driggs'
Violin: 46747
Labeled, "Carlo Bergonzi fecit / in Cremona anno 1796."
Back: Two-piece of Italian Oppio maple, with an original wing in the lower bout
Length of back: 35.3 cm
Upper bouts: 16.45 cm
Middle bouts: 10.6 cm
Lower bouts: 20.2 cm
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Notes:
"It is easy to see how his instruments can travel under other colors, and indeed this one had at one time been certified and sold, nothwithstanding the label, as a Nicola."Cremona After Stradivari: The Bergonzi and Storioni Families, Duane Rosengard, Journal of the Violin Society of America, Vol. XII, No. 1, Flushing, NY
Provenance
| W. H. Driggs | |
| Sally Dodge | |
| Chi-Mei Culture Foundation | |
| until 1925 | W. E. Hill & Sons |
| ... | ... |
| from 1925 and in 1936 | Lillian Shattuck |
| until 1936 | Emil Herrmann, New York |
| from 1936 | Louise Zimmer |
| in c. 2010 | Chi-Mei Culture Foundation |
Certificates & Documents
Certificate: Machold Rare Violins, Ltd, Vienna (1999) X-1713.
Letter: Jacques Français, New York, NY (1993)- Certificate: Emil Herrmann, New York, New York, NY (1936)
- Letter: W. E. Hill & Sons, London (1936)
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References
- Correspondence with Dai-Ting Chung, consultant for the Chi Mei Foundation, July, 2008
Journal of the Violin Society of America, Vol. XII, No. 1, Duane Rosengard, The Queens College Press, Flushing, NY (illustrated)- Private Archives - 10072, Chi-Mei Culture Foundation
- Private Archives - 10842, Wurlitzer
- The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)
- The Late Cremonese Violin Makers, Dmitry Gindin, Editioni Novecento, Cremona (illustrated)
- The Legend of Italian Violins: Brescian and Cremonese Violin Makers 1550-1950, Dai Ting Chung, Wen-Lo Shi (illustrated)
- The Strad, April, 1977, London (illustrated)