Notable Sales: Antonio Stradivari | Violin, 1701
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Ex-Deveault; Ferraresi
Cremona, 1701
The front and scroll modern replacements by Philip Ihle and Stephan von Baehr, London and Paris, 2016
labelled Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1701 AS and further labelled racomodé par Leclerc artiste au 15 vingt à Paris 1777
length of back 35.3cm.
The 1701 ‘ex-Deveault; Ferraresi’ was made at the beginning of the Golden Period and was owned by Aldo Ferraresi in the early 20th century. Ferraresi played on many precious violins including the ‘King George’ Stradivarius of 1710 and the ‘Cannone’ Guarneri del Gèsu of 1742 but this violin is thought to have been played by his younger brother and student Cesare.
Ferraresi sold the violin to Ludwig Roselius, a German merchant and the owner of the Kaffee Hag coffee brand. Roselius accidentally discovered, and proceeded to co-develop, the first commercial decaffeination process after a shipment of coffee beans arrived soaked in seawater, stripping them of their caffeine content. The ‘ex-Deveault; Ferraresi’ quickly changed hands again, being sold to Dr. Walter Schindler in the early 1920s and then to Arthur Voss just before he died around 1925. Around this time the violin was loaned to Helge Hussels, a young soloist in Berlin.
The ‘ex-Deveault; Ferraresi’ was sold in 1972 through Fritz Baumgartner of Basel to Siegfried Elser, who kept it until it was bought in 1991 by Frau Kerstin Hytrek. Frau Hytrek was cellist of the Brendel Quartet in Duisburg, named not after a founding member, but after the location of the first rehearsal: the Brendel restaurant in Duisburg, formerly located at Kaiserstraße 81. Frau Hytrek sold the violin in 2002 to Herbert Axelrod, from whom it was acquired by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in 2003. All the instruments which the orchestra bought from Axelrod were sold to a group of investors led by the Taube brothers, twins and businessmen from the United States, in 2007 in order to bail the orchestra out of financial difficulties.
The Taube brothers parted with the ‘ex-Deveault; Ferraresi’ in 2016, when it was bought by Château Du Lac Sacacomie Inc. through Ingles & Hayday. It is now played by Canadian violinist Alexandre Da Costa.
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