• ID: 273
  • Type: cello
  • Maker: Antonio Stradivari
  • Year built: 1701
  • City: Cremona
  • Name: Servais
Label: original
Ribs: of wood similar to back
Neck: original
Body Length: 79.15 cm.
Center Bout: 25.2 cm.
Back: Two-piece of narrow curl
Table: of medium pronounced grain
Varnish: Orange-red
Upper Bout: 36.35 cm.
Lower Bout: 46.7 cm.

Photos

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  • front, back & f-hole
  • scroll & side

Iconography Index

Black-and-white photos (front & back): How Many Strads?, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago, 1945.

Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole - 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.

Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole): Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972.

Black-and-white photos (front, side & back): "Eighteenth-Centruy Connections Through Musical Instruments", Gary Sturm, VSA Proceedings, Vol. IX, No. 2, 1987, 1987.

Color photos (back & scroll): "Mouldy relics", John Dilworth, The Strad, June, 2000, 2000.

Color photos (front, back & scroll): "Poster supplement", The Strad, December, 1987, 1987.

Order Color photos (front, back & scroll): violons, Vuillaume, edited by Rémy Campos, Musée de la Musique, Paris, 1998.

Color photos (front, back & side): "In from the cold", Jerome Carrington, The Strad, September, 2004, 2004.

Color photos (front, side & scroll): We Love Stradivari, NHK, 1988.

Color photos (scroll): "Antonio Stradivari 'Servais' 1701", Roger Hargrave, The Strad, December, 1987, 1987.

Notes

"The only example which combines the grandeur of the pre-1700 instruments with the more masculine build of the master's earlier years."
Antonio Stradivari: His Life & Work (1644-1737), W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. Hill, William E. Hill & Sons, London, 1902.

Provenance

Owner Owned From Owned In Owned Till Price paid
Smithsonian Institute Museum   1981       
Charlotte V. Bergen (Bernardsville, NJ)  1929    1981  For members only 
...         
Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.  1929    1929   
Ferdinand Pollain   1919    1928   
...         
W.E. Hill & Sons  1928       
Caressa & Francais (Paris)  1919    1919   
Caressa         
...         
Jean Louis Courvoisier (Paris)  1919    1919   
Caressa & Francais (Paris)  1919    1919  For members only 
Prince de Caraman-Chimay  1895      For members only 
W.E. Hill & Sons  1893    1895   
Auguste Couteaux  1885    1893  For members only 
Joseph Serais   1866    1885   
Adrien-Francois Servais     1857  1866   
Prince Nicholas Youssoupov        For members only 
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris)  1841       
Raoul family  1837    1841   
Jean-Marie Raoul      1837   
...         

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

Players

Name Played From Played In Played To
...       
Anner Bylsma       
...       
Adrien-Francois Servais       1866 
...       

Current player Current player
Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments. Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments

Certificates

Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London

Certificate: Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., New York

References

Antonio Stradivari and His Instruments, William Henley, Amati Publishing, Ltd., Sussex, 1961.

Antonio Stradivari: His Life & Work (1644-1737), W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. Hill, William E. Hill & Sons, London, 1902.

How Many Strads?, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago, 1945.

Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972.

Order violons, Vuillaume, edited by Rémy Campos, Musée de la Musique, Paris, 1998.

We Love Stradivari, NHK, 1988.

"Antonio Stradivari 'Servais' 1701", Roger Hargrave, The Strad, December, 1987, 1987.

"Eighteenth-Centruy Connections Through Musical Instruments", Gary Sturm, VSA Proceedings, Vol. IX, No. 2, 1987, 1987.

Order "How May Strads? - Supplemental Remarks", Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, November, 1946, 1946.

"In from the cold", Jerome Carrington, The Strad, September, 2004, 2004.

"Mouldy relics", John Dilworth, The Strad, June, 2000, 2000.

"Poster supplement", The Strad, December, 1987, 1987.

http://www.cello.org/heaven/hill/pix/Index.htm

http://www.celloheaven.com/hill/pix/html/servais2.htm

http://www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/objectdescription.cfm?ID=26

Sale Book, 1870-1936, The Jacques Francais Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

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

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Somebody sent this to me, so I thought I would share it:

On Saturday, March 29th, in Toulouse - France, will be presented in auction an exceptional portrait by Servais Detilleux of the very famous - in the Twenties - cellist Ferdinand Pollain playing the still very famous Stradivarius cello "the Servais". (by the way  first name of the painter, himself friend of Eugene Isaye and Guillaume Lekeu - See Musée d'art Wallon) 

Pollain was the owner of this Cello until 1928, actually property, as you know, of the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. Here is the link were you can see this announcement:

http://www.primardeco.com/fr/Detail_lot.aspx?vt=765227&pg=&act=dlot&mc=servais&si=1



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Is this the uncutted cello that Bylsma used to play?
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