Crescenzio Ugar
Highest auction price
£8,800
Auction price history
| Type | Details | Sold | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violin | 1785 | Sat 1st November 1986 | £8,800 |
Biographies
John Dilworth
UGAR, Crescenzio Born before 1751 Urbino, died 1791 Rome Italy. Son of one Carlo Ugar of Urbino. Probably of German origin. First noted in the Roman archives as a violin maker in SS. Sudario dalla parte de’ Barbieri in 1788. Fine instruments of unrefined finish but good Italian proportion and balance. Long soundholes with emphatically cut nicks. Medium arch and narrow edge. Distinctive head with long slender pegbox and quite concentric scroll with deeply extended final turn. Some instruments noted with whalebone purfling. Good but not exceptional varnish of golden- to red-brown. Materials of second quality, heavy-grained fronts and often flawed maple of apparently local origin. Double basses much admired. In his will of 1791 several unfinished violins cellos and basses are listed amongst the tools and equipment of the workshop left to his pupil Giuseppe Orselli. Label in double bass cited by Strocchi: Crescentius Ugar / fecit Romae anno 1788 [Lebet]
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