Guitar attributed to Jacob Stadler, Naples... - Lot 42 - Farrando

Lot 42
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50000 - 70000 EUR
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Guitar attributed to Jacob Stadler, Naples... - Lot 42 - Farrando
Guitar attributed to Jacob Stadler, Naples 1st half of the 17th century. The body has a curved back and alternating bone and ebony sides. The sides are decorated with finely cut ivory and ebony inlays, as well as the back of the neck, the fingerboard and the headstock. The top of this instrument is a more recent copy of another stylistically similar Stadler in the Museum of Rome, as well as an identical one in a private collection and those in Paris and London. Contemporary parchment rosette by Elena Dal Cortivo, set in the original mother-of-pearl rosette reinstalled on the table. It is in an antique case dating from the beginning of the 19th century to move the instrument safely.  It is important to note that in Naples at that time the violin makers used bone more easily than ivory for their instruments. The ivory for the scroll inlays is most probably taken from the tabletiers, the only ones authorized by the powerful guilds to work this material and to make figurative inlays, scrolls, flowers, landscapes, etc. The guilds and their strict rules forbade luthiers from using figurative motifs, leaving them with more abstract geometric motifs: fillets, pistachios, checkerboards, etc. Stadler, a German violin maker from Fussen, the cradle of violin making, in order to follow the draconian instructions of the German guilds which strictly controlled the number of violin makers practising in the city, moved to Italy, mainly to Naples, where he made his career. Click on the link below to see the HD Pictures HD Pictures
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