A German violin, unlabelled, the length of back 14in. (35.5cm), in case with bow

Recommended features

• • 

  • Boucheron: a collector’s guide

    The jeweller Frédéric Boucheron opened his first shop in the arcades of the Palais Royal, Paris; more than 160 years later, the maison he founded is a world leader

• • 

  • ‘When possibilities for a new world were endless’: The New School of Paris

    The emergence of lyrical abstraction in postwar France, iIllustrated with key works by Georges Mathieu, Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun