Lot number 3465 - Auction 137
VENEZIANISCHE MEISTERVIOLINE VERMUTLICH FRANCESCO GOBETTI

VENETIAN MASTER VIOLIN PROBABLY BY FRANCESCO GOBETTI Venice, around 1750 One-piece spruce top and beautifully flamed maple back, light brown-red varnish. 4/4 violin, l. 59.5 cm, body l. 35.5 cm. Facsimile violin label: 'Januarius Gagliano filius Alexandri fecit Neapel 1742'. Part rubbed and bumped, crack under the fingerboard, minor damage and rest, repainted. Expertise: Three appraisals available: Expertise by Fritz Baumgartner Jr. Basel from 1968, photo expertise by Franz Kühnen Saarbrücken from 1960, appraisal by master violin maker Urs W. Mächler, Speyer from 2002. Provenance: Private collection Rhineland-Palatinate.