Modena School
Antonio Pollastri
Modena, worked 1780–1800
Good work with fine red varnish and good materials. Features rather exaggerated, with broad purfling, widely cut soundholes, and large scroll. Not known to be connected with the Pollastri family of Bologna, below. Antonio Pollastri / fecit Mutinae 1786 — John Dilworth
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John Dilworth+
POLLASTRI, Antonio Worked circa. 1780-1800 Modena Italy. Good work with fine red varnish and good materials. Features rather exaggerated, with broad purfling, widely cut soundholes, and large scroll. Not known to be connected with the Pollastri family of Bologna, below. Antonio Pollastri / fecit Mutinae 1786
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Sohn oder Bruder von Giuseppe Pollastri. Er war eigentlich Musiklehrer
und machte einige recht gute Violen. Auch bei Valdrighi (2477) wird er erwähnt.
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