French-made 7/8 cello in the Old Paris style of the late eig - Lot 17

French-made 7/8 cello in the Old Paris style of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, bearing a very faded CHAROTTE A PARIS iron mark on the inside, two-piece maple back with light horizontal waves, spruce top with fairly regular rings, thinner in the center and widening a little towards the edges, attractive, finely carved maple headstock without waves. Various accidents to the top and back, as well as to the ribs, including a fractured bar and web on the top and back. Gilded yellow-orange varnish, 732mm with a French-made bow from Mirecourt bearing a SIMON.FR iron mark, round pernambuco stick, ebony nickel silver frog and button, 76.5grs with fine worm and silver fittings, good condition.