Jean Nicolas Lambert

Highest auction price achieved
£ 18750.00

By Cecie Stainer

A maker in Paris. Was working in rue Michel-le-Comte about 1743-85. The date of his death is not known, but in 1788 the business was being carried on by his widow. He was possibly a brother of the maker in Nancy. The label: "J. N. Lambert, rue Michel-le-Comte, Paris, 1750," was in a violin of flat pattern, with badly cut sound-holes ; a similar label, dated 1759, is in a violoncello in the Paris Conservatoire Collection ; another violoncello is dated 1752 ; " Lambert a Paris " was branded on the inside of the back of an alto, and " Lambert a Paris, 1782," was inscribed in a cither; a guitar was dated 1784.

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Price History

Type Title Sold Price
Violin 17-- Wed 1st June 83 £ 484.00
Cello 75.7 cm Paris, 1770 c. Fri 1st October 10 £ 18750.00
Violin 35.8 cm Paris, 1780 [Workshop of] Mon 1st December 08 £ 1536.00
Violin 1760 Mon 1st December 03 £ 1484.00
Violin Bow N/E 53 g. Sun 1st September 02 £ 575.00
Viola 38.9 cm 1770 Sat 1st June 02 £ 2041.00
Violin 1770 Tue 1st June 99 £ 2600.00
Violin 1770 Tue 1st June 99 £ 4887.00
Cello 1760 Tue 1st December 98 £ 8066.00
Violin 1790 c. Sun 1st March 98 £ 2433.00
Cello 1743 Sat 1st March 97 £ 10350.00
Violin 1780 Thu 1st June 95 £ 1725.00
Violin 1750-75 Thu 1st June 89 £ 3520.00

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