Description
A fine silver-mounted violin bow by Charles Louis Bazin, Mirecourt, circa 1935.
Stamped: AMATI MANGENOT.
This violin bow is a beautiful specimen of the work of Charles Louis Bazin (1881-1953), the last major maker of the family dynasty. Many Bazin bows were supplied to violin making workshops and this bears the brand (on the opposite side of the stick) for the Amati Mangenot, an assistant of Justin Derazey who had set up his own Mirecourt workshop in Clermont-Ferrand in 1922, and afterwards in Bordeaux from 1925.
Work by the Bazin family has tended to be underrated because of the sheer number of makers from the family and because of the varied quality of commercial work that they produced, often supplying the lower end of the French bow-making market. However, they provided the training ground for many of the great Parisian workshops, and in their best work they closely followed the trends of the time. As the number of bow makers dwindled in the early nineteenth century Charles Nicolas Bazin and afterwards Charles Louis Bazin became increasingly prominent.
It is a marvellous playing bow, with a balance verging on the weighty side it that provides a tremendous capacity for power, and an even unbroken tone across its length.
Certificate: JF Raffin, Yannick Le-Canu & Sylvane Bigot, 2019 erroneously ascribing it to Charles Louis’ father, C.N. Bazin (1847-1915) as a “Beau spéceimen de ce grand Maître française n bon état à ce jour et fait vers 1935”.
-Condition notes: The bow is in excellent condition.
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