A VERY FINE FRENCH VIOLIN by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume labelled Imitation précise de Stradiuarius du/Comte Cozio de Salabue, date 1716/le "Messie" Fait Par/Jean Baptiste Vuillaume à Paris/3 rue Demours-Ternes; the two-piece back of handsome medium curl, the ribs and scroll similar, the table of open grain, the varnish of an orange-brown colour over a golden ground, the length of back 14 1/16in. (35.7cm.)