Gudgeon

Cello - Domenico Montagnana, Venice, 1737

“The Gudgeon is a marvelous-sounding cello and the varnish, as Robert Bein noted, is utterly superb. It is a deep red-brown with golden highlights and, most unusually, shows the picturesque craqueleur, chipped, three-dimensional appearance, that appears only in exceedingly well-preserved instruments.”

David Fulton