Violin/Fiddle

Duiffopruggar violin

Paris, France
Western Europe

Maple, spruce
Late 1800's

“Duiffopruggar” violin from the Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume workshop

French Violin from the late 1800's, decorated on the back with marquetry inlay showing a scenic city landscape of Paris, a carved bearded male head scroll, and a double row of purfling (Brescian-type) round the edges on the front and back. While the label inside reads, "Jiovan Paola Magini Brescia 1715," this violin is an 1800s-anonymous copy and was made by the top French makers of the day, possibly Jean Joseph Derazey, who made many ornamental “Duiffopruggar” violins for the J.B. Vuillaume work shop. This violin consists of a one-piece table of spruce, one-piece back and ribs of maple, an original maple neck, and a semi-transparent yellow orange, brown varnish.

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Catalog#: 2CL-CHLT-73

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