Mons School
Jean Francois Fonce
Mons, worked 1751
Vannes cites a cello with an inked design of three flowers on a stem on the lower corners of the front, signed on the front beneath the fingerboard: ‘Foncé à Mons’. Violin in the Snoeck Collection, Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels, labelled; Joannes Fran… / Foncé Monensis anno 1751. — John Dilworth
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FONCÉ, Jean François Worked circa. 1751 Mons, Belgium. Vannes cites a cello with an inked design of three flowers on a stem on the lower corners of the front, signed on the front beneath the fingerboard: ‘Foncé à Mons’. Violin in the Snoeck Collection, Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels, labelled; Joannes Fran… / Foncé Monensis anno 1751.
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