Just out of the safe, she poses in majesty on one of the tables of the Aguttes study, in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
The “Boquay violin bass” from the beginning of the 18th century, as if from a history book, embraces the visitor with emotion.
Once is not customary, it is not the soundboard that is offered at first glance, but the background.
Under the light layer of varnish which still magnifies the light brown maple, it reveals the once dazzling paintings.
And above all, in the lower part, an imposing crowned oval coat of arms, edged with possible reeds, and bearing the great arms of France.
Weapons "amputated" by a fleur-de-lys by the transformation, at the end of the 18th century or during the 19th century, of the instrument into a cello.
This is evidenced by the median line which crosses the back of the instrument from bottom to top, this rose window filled in under the fingerboard or even these gills of which we can clearly see traces of modification.
“Originally, these weapons were to form a circle.
By reconstituting the latter, we have
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