Giovanni Guidanti

Highest auction price achieved
£ 59280.00

By George Hart

High model ; sound-hole long ; purfling badly let in; the outer form inelegant, particularly the middle bouts. At the Exhibition at Milan, 1881, a Viola d'Amore was exhibited, signed "Joanne Guidantus, fecit Bononiae, anno 1715," ornamented with a beautiful head artistically carved, representing a blindfolded Cupid.

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Price History

Type Title Sold Price
Violin 35.4 cm [Attributed to] Mon 1st March 10 £ 4600.00
Violin 35.8 cm 18th C. [Attributed to] Thu 1st October 09 £ 7500.00
Violin 35.8 cm Bologne, 1730 c. (some restorations) Mon 1st June 09 £ 19187.00
Cello 73.8 cm Bologna, 1720 c. [Attributed to] Sat 1st November 08 £ 59280.00
Violin Bologna, 1733 c. Sat 1st October 05 £ 50914.00
Violin 1738 Fri 1st March 02 £ 18900.00
Violin 1737 Thu 1st November 01 £ 24000.00
Violin 1741 Sun 1st May 94 £ 17806.00
Violin 1740 Mon 1st April 91 £ 5500.00
Violin 1730 c. Fri 1st June 90 £ 15400.00
Cello 17-- [Labeled] Thu 1st March 90 £ 50600.00
Violin 1738 Wed 1st March 89 £ 29700.00
Violin 1700 c. Wed 1st June 88 £ 17600.00
Violin 1740 c. Wed 1st April 87 £ 10780.00
Violin 1731 Fri 1st February 85 £ 16500.00
Viola 41.4 cm 1737 Tue 1st June 82 £ 21600.00
Violin 1741 Mon 1st June 81 £ 4180.00
Violin 1730 Sun 1st June 80 £ 2457.00

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