Tomasso Balestrieri
Highest auction price
£262,196
Auction price history
| Type | Details | Sold | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violin | 35.7 cm 1750 c. (later scroll) [Ascribed to] | Thu 1st October 2009 | £89,885 |
| Violin | 35.0 cm Mantua, 1760 c. | Sun 1st June 2008 | £40,800 |
| Violin | 35.4 cm Mantua, 1760 c. | Sat 1st March 2008 | £76,050 |
| Violin | 35.2 cm Mantua, 1760 c. (top probably by his pupil "Giofreddo Cappa") | Tue 1st May 2007 | £15,842 |
| Viola | 41.0 cm Mantua, 1774 | Sun 1st October 2006 | £262,196 |
| Violin | 35.1 cm Mantua, 1785 | Wed 1st February 2006 | £232,000 |
| Violin | Mantua, 1781 | Tue 1st November 2005 | £134,215 |
| Violin | Mantua, 1764 | Tue 1st November 2005 | £60,000 |
| Violin | Mantua, 1759 | Fri 1st October 2004 | £49,138 |
| Violin | 1760 c. | Sat 1st March 2003 | £89,600 |
| Violin | 1771 | Sun 1st December 2002 | £55,996 |
| Violin | 1767 | Fri 1st November 2002 | £106,192 |
| Violin | 1760 | Tue 1st May 2001 | £23,404 |
| Violin | 1767 | Mon 1st May 2000 | £66,000 |
| Violin | 1788 | Sun 1st June 1997 | £69,700 |
| Violin | 17-- | Thu 1st June 1995 | £78,500 |
| Violin | 1788 | Tue 1st November 1994 | £84,000 |
| Violin | 1765 c. | Mon 1st November 1993 | £41,100 |
| Violin | 1760 c. | Sun 1st March 1992 | £52,800 |
| Violin | 1768 | Fri 1st June 1990 | £25,300 |
| Violin | 1778 | Thu 1st March 1990 | £93,500 |
| Violin | 17-- | Thu 1st June 1989 | £66,000 |
| Violin | 1750 c. | Sun 1st November 1987 | £26,400 |
| Violin | 1761 | Fri 1st November 1985 | £30,800 |
| Violin | 1771 | Sat 1st June 1985 | £37,840 |
| Viola | 39.7 cm 1760 c. | Fri 1st June 1984 | £22,638 |
| Violin | 17-- | Fri 1st June 1984 | £31,693 |
| Violin | 1750 | Thu 1st April 1982 | £10,450 |
| Violin | 1763 | Mon 1st March 1982 | £9,167 |
Biographies
John Dilworth
BALESTRIERI, Tomasso Born circa. 1735, d.c.1790 Mantua Italy. Referred to himself on his labels as Cremonese, but to date no record of him has been found in the city. The likelihood is that he was born in one of the villages between Cremona and Mantua. The leading maker in Mantua, following Pietro Guarneri, Antonio Zanotti, and his presumed teacher Camillo Camilli. Early work has a Camilli-like rotundity and lightness, but through the greater part of his career worked in a slightly coarsened Cremonese style, with an authentic technique acquired through Camilli from Guarneri. A bold flat-arched Stradivarian model with a powerful sound, but substituting the great Cremonese varnish with a slightly harder recipe, tending towards a greenish golden-brown. Open scroll with small chamfer, recalling Storioni. Thomas Balestrieri / Cremonensis / Fecit Mantuae anno 1751
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