1737 - Violin "King Joseph"

Soundboard of spruce similar to that of the violin Stern. Back of the 1737 in one piece of curly maple cut on the slab, with irregular horizontal medium curl. Scroll attributed to Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri.

  • 1737, Cremona
  • 35.2 cm
  • 16.5 cm
  • 10.9 cm
  • 20.4 cm
  • Dendrochronological analysis by Peter Klein (Hamburg) 1998. Youngest ring is 1734
  • Itzhak Perlman
  • John Hart (London); James Goding 1857; John Hart (London 1857; Samuel Appleby (Brighton); C. H. C. Plowden 1868; John P. Waters (Brooklyn) 1868/76; Royal De Forest Hawley (Hartford) 1876/93; Laura W. Hawley 1893/96; Ralph M. Granger 1896/1902; Lyon & Healy 1902/03; Henry Osborne Havemeyer 1903; Horace Havemeyer 1954/78; C. M. Sin (Hong Kong) 1978; David L. Fulton 2002/11
  • 1994, New York: The Violin Masterpieces of Guarneri del Gesù
  • S. a. 1857; Pearce 1866; Hart 1885; Lyon & Healy 1904; Hill 1931; Stafford 1944; Doring 1954; Boyden 1965; Bein-Fushi 1980; AA.VV. 1994; Chiesa-Dilworth-Rosengard 1998; Bein & Fushi 1998; Pieters 2002

creato:lunedì 15 ottobre 2012
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017