The Lady Tennant is a violin made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It was created in 1699, a year before Stradivari's 'golden' period. Violin The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... Antonio Stradivari (1644 - December 18, 1737) was an Italian luthier (maker of violins and other stringed instruments), the most prominent member of that profession. ... One of the violins in the Stradivarius collection of the Royal Palace, Madrid, Spain. ...
On April 22, 2005, the Lady Tennant sold for a record $2,032,000 USD at Christie's auction house in New York and presented on an indefinite loan to violinist Yang Liu. April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... The Christies auction house in South Kensington, London Christies is a world-famous auction house located in London. ...
Stradivariusviolins are very valuable because of their special construction and beautiful sound, and are always revered by the world’s greatest violinists.
Stradivariusviolins rarely come up for sale, and the highest price paid at public auction for one was “The LadyTennant”violin made in 1699, which sold for $2,032,000 in 2005.
Stradivariusviolins are famous for the unique quality of their sound, and there have been many attempts to reproduce it, although no maker has ever been successful.
The current auction record for a violin belongs to the LadyTennant, a 1699 Stradivarius that sold for $2.03 million last spring.
The LadyTennant had a presale estimate of $800,000 to $1.2 million.
He said unlike the LadyTennant, the Hammer was made after 1700, during Stradivari’s “golden period,” when he is believed to have made his finest instruments.
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