"Made during Stradivari’s ‘Amatisé’ period, the ‘Hellier’ is among only a dozen of his violins to feature inlaid decoration. Ornately florid silhouettes of flowers and vines are etched into the wood of the ribs and pegbox, filled in with an ebony mastic. Between the two rows of purfling are a procession of ivory circles alternating with delicately engraved ivory diamonds. The designs were first drawn on paper before being transposed to the wood, and Stradivari’s original drawings for the inlay are still kept at Cremona’s Museo del Violino" Magazine Strad
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