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Ornately Decorated Violin Attributed to Honoré Derazey, ca. 1850-1870
NMM 5914. Violin
attributed to Honoré Derazey, Mirecourt, France, ca. 1850-1870.
Handwritten paper label in black ink: Gaſpard Duiffopruggar
/ Boimamellia, Anno 1516. Incised into ribs in large block letters,
painted black: upper bass rib: VIVA FVI; lower bass rib: IVI
SYLVIS DEO; lower treble rib: VI MORT VA; upper treble rib:
DUL CE ╪. Rib inscription an abridgement of the Latin verse,
"Viva fui in Sylvis; sum dura occisa securi; Dum vixi, tacui, mortua
dulce cano," which translates "I was living in the forest;
the cruel ax did slay me. Living, I was mute, Dead, I sweetly sing."
Ex coll.: Vladimir Lenski, North Hollywood, California. Gift of Kathleen
Lenski, Los Angeles, California, 1995.
Close-up view of long f-holes; very narrow upper and
lower wings; notches minimally offset; inside edges stained black. Spruce,
three-lobe oak leaf appliqués on corners of top; maple overlap
purfling.
Decoration on back of Derazey violin includes: maple
three-lobe oak leaf appliqués on corners of back; abstract foliate spear-shaped
appliqué surrounded by decorative purfling on upper back, below button;
walnut, burn-shaded cherry, burn-shaded boxwood, rosewood, maple, and
ebony marquetry scene of a castle on lower back, surrounded by pointed-arch-shaped
purfling terminating in a purfled French cross with inlaid cherry trefoils
at the ends of the arms; walnut, burn-shaded cherry, burn-shaded boxwood,
burn-shaded maple, and rosewood rectangular marquetry town scenes within
inlaid, brown-stained hardwood fillet, crossed line decoration on center
ribs. Purfling on the violin: double; inner band follows outline of
carved and inlaid decoration; inlaid before appliqués affixed, which
slightly overlap purfling.
 
Pegbox of Derazey violin terminates in a carved head
of an elderly, bearded man wearing an acanthus wreath and a ruff. Back
of pegbox is flat, with incised and black-painted vine pattern and decorative
cutouts.
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