Giovanni Battista Ceruti

Highest auction price achieved
£ 107355.00

By George Hart

Ceruti made a large number of Violins and Violoncellos of the pattern of Amati. He appears to have been a prolific workman, his instruments numbering, it is said, about five hundred. His favourite model was the large Amati. Giovanni Ceruti succeeded to the business of Lorenzo Storioni in 1790, in the Via dei Coltellai, near the Piazza. St. Domenico.

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Price History

Type Title Sold Price
Violin 18-- Fri 1st April 83 £ 10260.00
Violin 1808 Sun 1st November 81 £ 3534.00
Violin 35.9 cm Cremona, 1803 Thu 1st April 10 £ 76717.00
Violin 35.2 cm Cremona, 1800 c. Wed 1st April 09 £ 107355.00
Violin 35.6 cm [Ascribed to] with Literature Wed 1st October 08 £ 31300.00
Cello 75.8 cm Cremona, 1800 c. [Attributed to] Sat 1st March 08 £ 34580.00
Cello 74.5 cm Cremona, 1790 Sat 1st March 08 £ 46100.00
Viola 39.7 cm 1900 c. [Attributed to] Sat 1st March 08 £ 4750.00
Violin 35.2 cm Cremona, 1815 c. [showing the collaboration of his son "Giuseppe"] Tue 1st May 07 £ 46085.00
Violin 35.6 cm Italy, Early 19th C. [Attributed to] Thu 1st February 07 £ 26400.00
Violin 36.1 cm 19th C. [Ascribed to] Thu 1st February 07 £ 5040.00
Violin 35.6 cm Cremona, 1800 Mon 1st May 06 £ 30658.00
Violin Cremona, 1810 Tue 1st November 05 £ 45600.00
Viola 39.9 cm [Ascribed to] Tue 1st November 05 £ 23986.00
Violin 1809 Mon 1st November 04 £ 45410.00
Violin Cremona, 1809 Fri 1st October 04 £ 7968.00
Cello 1801 (composite) Sat 1st March 03 £ 15317.00
Violin 1790 Fri 1st November 02 £ 65725.00
Violin 1790 Thu 1st November 01 £ 52000.00
Violin 1805 Tue 1st May 01 £ 50709.00
Violin 1804 Mon 1st November 93 £ 16100.00
Violin 1820 c. Fri 1st November 91 £ 25300.00
Violin 1803 Fri 1st November 91 £ 17600.00
Violin 1815 Wed 1st November 89 £ 28600.00
Viola 41.3 cm 1808 Wed 1st March 89 £ 49610.00
Violin 18-- Wed 1st June 88 £ 20900.00
Violin 1813 Mon 1st April 85 £ 24200.00

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