Giuseppe ROCCA

Highest auction price achieved
£ 210500.00

By Cecie Stainer

A maker in Turin about 1830-55. Worked at one time for Pressenda. His violins are generally made on the Stradivari pattern ; the work is carefully finished, the scroll well cut, but the varnish is of poor quality. Label: "Joseph Antonio Rocca fecit Taurini, anno Domini 1841." Other violins are known dated 1839, 1851, and 1855.

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Price History

Type Title Sold Price
Violin 35.8 cm Turin, 1855 c. [Possibly by] Wed 1st June 11 £ 24000.00
Violin 35.6 cm [Ascribed to] Sun 1st May 11 £ 27313.00
Violin 35.8 cm 19th C. [Attributed to] Tue 1st March 11 £ 31250.00
Violin 35.4 cm Turin, 1850 Fri 1st October 10 £ 169250.00
Violin 35.4 cm Turin, 1832 c. [Ascribed to & possibly by] Thu 1st April 10 £ 82488.00
Violin 35.5 cm Turin, 1855 c. Fri 1st May 09 £ 112579.00
Violin 35.8 cm 19th C. [Attributed to] Sun 1st March 09 £ 30000.00
Violin 35.4 cm Turin, 1850 c. Wed 1st October 08 £ 145000.00
Violin 35.7 cm Probably Turin, [Attributed to] Thu 1st May 08 £ 13770.00
Violin 35.9 cm Italy 19th C. [Ascribed to] Wed 1st February 06 £ 14400.00
Violin Turin 1850 Mon 1st November 04 £ 140000.00
Violin [Ascribed to] Mon 1st March 04 £ 33600.00
Violin 1846 Tue 1st July 03 £ 100800.00
Violin 1845 Wed 1st November 00 £ 91500.00
Violin 1845 Wed 1st November 00 £ 80500.00
Violin 1849 Wed 1st March 00 £ 133500.00
Violin 36.1 cm 1860 c. [Attributed to] Sat 1st November 08 £ 24000.00
Violin Turin, 1837 [Workshop] Sun 1st May 05 £ 19374.00
Cello 1845 Tue 1st May 01 £ 144056.00
Violin 1851 Wed 1st November 00 £ 126950.00
Violin 1843 Mon 1st November 99 £ 128000.00
Violin 1861 Sun 1st October 95 £ 43300.00
Violin 1854 c. Wed 1st March 95 £ 104900.00
Violin 1861 Wed 1st March 95 £ 87300.00
Violin 1857 Tue 1st November 94 £ 62000.00
Cello 1854 Tue 1st November 94 £ 210500.00
Violin 1853 Mon 1st November 93 £ 82900.00
Violin 1854 Thu 1st April 93 £ 78500.00
Violin 1852 Sun 1st November 92 £ 99000.00
Violin 1854 Sun 1st March 92 £ 60500.00
Violin 1859 Fri 1st November 91 £ 82500.00
Violin 18-- Fri 1st June 90 £ 66000.00
Violin 1850 Thu 1st March 90 £ 94600.00
Violin 1854 Wed 1st November 89 £ 11550.00
Violin 1841 Wed 1st November 89 £ 99000.00
Violin 1863 Tue 1st November 88 £ 46200.00
Cello 1838 Sun 1st November 87 £ 57200.00
Violin 1848 c. Sun 1st November 87 £ 20900.00
Violin 1856 Wed 1st April 87 £ 33000.00
Violin 1860 Sat 1st March 86 £ 25920.00
Violin 1850 Sat 1st March 86 £ 15172.00
Violin 1845 Fri 1st November 85 £ 35200.00
Violin 1850 Fri 1st November 85 £ 28080.00
Violin 1864 Mon 1st July 85 £ 26400.00
Violin 1847 Mon 1st April 85 £ 50600.00
Violin 1850 Mon 1st April 85 £ 33000.00
Violin 1842 Thu 1st November 84 £ 33000.00
Violin 1840-50 Mon 1st October 84 £ 7150.00
Violin 1856 Fri 1st June 84 £ 19242.00
Violin 1860 Fri 1st June 84 £ 7244.00
Violin 1857 Sun 1st April 84 £ 13006.00
Violin 1857 Thu 1st March 84 £ 23100.00
Violin 1859 Wed 1st June 83 £ 17280.00
Violin 1860 Sun 1st November 81 £ 10098.00
Violin 1845 Thu 1st May 80 £ 17050.00

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