Instrument

  • ID: 2902
  • Type: cello
  • Maker: Matteo Goffriller
  • Year built: 1689-1740*
  • City: Venice
  • Name: ex Cabot
 

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Label: fake, "Montagnana. . . "
Varnish: Dark reddish brown
Upper Bout: 34.5 cm.
Lower Bout: 43.4 cm.
Back: Two-piece
Body Length: 75.4 cm.
Center Bout: 24 cm.

Photos

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  • front, back & side

Iconography Index

Black-and-white photos (front, back & side - initialed by Emil Herrmann): The Jacques Francais Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.


Provenance

Owner Owned From Owned In Owned Till Price paid
...         
Tauno Hannikainen    1950     
Handasyd Cabot         
...         

Current owner Current owner
Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician

References

Order "Gofriller - Notes", Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, February, 1950, 1950.

The Jacques Francais Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.