A Cello
bow, stamped E.Sartory a` Paris – Sold in our Antique and Interiors sale for
£6500
Originating from Mirecourt
France, Eugène Nicolas Sartory (1871) became known as an influential French
archetier/ bow maker. Sartory first learned
his trade as an apprentice to his father and then went on to work with Paccatte
and Lamy Père, before setting up his own shop on the Boulevard Nouvelle in 1893.
Sartory’s bows are marked
"E.SARTORY A PARIS". It is
said that bows made by the French archetier have been among those most sought
after in instrument building for over 100 years. His perfectly balanced pieces have become
classical examples of the standard of bow that follows the tradition of
François Xavier Tourte. Sartory
perfected his own model and throughout his lifetime produced amazing standard
high quality pieces. Working mostly with
dark Pernambuco in the earlier period and becoming increasingly lighter into
the later years; but always giving his bows luxurious details, with ebony,
silver and gold fittings as well as tortoiseshell thumb leather and lizard
skin.
