List of Stradivarius instruments
Cellos
Antonio Stradivari built between 70 and 80 cellos in his lifetime, of which 63 are extant.

List of Stradivarius instruments

Section Title: Cellos
Table Section Text: Antonio Stradivari built between 70 and 80 cellos in his lifetime, of which 63 are extant.

Sobriquet	Year	Provenance	Notes

ex Vatican Stradivarius	1620*	Nadège Rochat Wendy Sutter Emmanuel Gradoux-Matt, New York	Originally made by Nicolo Amati as a viola da gamba c. 1620, reworked into a cello by Amati's student, Antonio Stradivari.

ex-Du Pré; ex-Harrell	1673	Jacqueline du Pré Lynn Harrell Yo-Yo Ma Istvan Vardai

General Kyd; ex-Leo Stern	1684	Leo Stern Los Angeles Philharmonic Robert deMaine	Stolen in 2004 and later recovered

Marylebone	1688	Donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod; part of the Axelrod quartet.

Barjansky	1690	Alexandre Barjansky Julian Lloyd Webber

ex-Gendron; ex-Lord Speyer	1693	Edgar Speyer; Kunststiftung NRW	On loan to Maria Kliegel; previously loaned to Maurice Gendron (1958–1990)

Spanish Court or Decorado	1694	Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain	Collectively known as Quinteto Real or Quinteto Palatino (The Royal Quintet or Palace Quintet) when included with the violin duo, los Decorados (Spanish I and II 1687–1689), Bajo Palatino cello of 1700 and the Spanish Court viola of 1696.

Bajo Palatino	1700	Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain	collectively known as Quinteto Palatino or Quinteto Palatino (The Royal Quintet or Palace Quintet) when included with the violin duo, los Decorados (Spanish I and II 1687–1689), Spanish Court cello of 1694 and the Spanish Court viola of 1696.

Bonjour	1696	Abel Bonjour Canada Council for the Arts	On loan to Bryan Cheng

Lord Aylesford	1696	Nippon Music Foundation	On loan to Pablo Ferrández; previously loaned to Danjulo Ishizaka and Janos Starker (1950–1965)

Castelbarco	1697	United States Library of Congress	Presented by Gertrude Clarke Whittall

Cholmondeley Cello	1698	Anonymous collector	Purchased in 1988 for a record GB£682,000 (US$1.2 million)

Stauffer; ex-Cristiani	1700	Jean Louis Duport Elise Barbier Cristiani	On display at the Civic Museum of Cremona

Servais	1701	National Museum of American History	On loan to Anner Bylsma

Paganini-Countess of Stanlein	1707	Bernard Greenhouse	Sold in January 2012 for ca. $6 million to Montreal arts patron; (later identified as Jacqueline Desmarais) on loan to Stéphane Tétreault

Boccherini; Romberg	1709	formerly played by Pablo Casals

Markevitch; Delphino	1709	Owned by the Fridart Foundation

Gore Booth; Baron Rothschild	1710	Rocco Filippini

Duport	1711	Mstislav Rostropovich (1974–2007)

Mara	1711	Heinrich Schiff Amedeo Baldovino	Lost in July 1963 when Montevideo-Buenos Aires ferry caught fire and sank; later recovered in pieces in its case and rebuilt by W.E.

Davidov	1712	Count Matvei Wielhorski [ru] (1794–1866) Karl Davidov Jacqueline du Pré	On loan to Yo-Yo Ma

Batta	1714	J. P. Thibout Alexander Batta W.E. Hill & Sons Baron Johann Knoop Gregor Piatigorsky	currently displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

de Vaux	1717	On loan to Adam Klocek

Amaryllis Fleming	1717	ex-Blair-Oliphant, ex-Hegar, ex-Kühn, ex-Küchler	Formerly owned by Amaryllis Fleming, half sister to writers Ian and Peter Fleming. Neck, head and table are not original, after extensive repairs in the 18th century by the Spanish luthier José Contreras; auctioned in 2008

Becker	1719	Hugo Becker

Piatti	1720	Carlos Prieto	Formerly part of the von Mendelssohn family quartet of Stradivari's in Berlin

Vaslin	1723	LVMH	On loan to Christian-Pierre La Marca

Baudiot	1725	Gregor Piatigorsky	Bequeathed to Evan Drachman by his grandfather Gregor Piatigorsky

Chevillard	1725	Museu da Música, Lisbon

Marquis de Corberon; ex-Loeb	1726	Royal Academy of Music	Formerly owned by Hugo Becker and Audrey Melville, who bequeathed it to the RAM in 1960. Melville's friend, Zara Nelsova, held it until her death in 2002, as a condition of Melville's bequest.

Comte de Saveuse	1726	Comte de Saveuse d'Abbeville, Edward Latter, Archibald Hartnell, Michael Edmonds, subsequently lent to Michael Evans.

De Munck; ex-Feuermann	1730	Emmanuel Feuermann Aldo Parisot Nippon Music Foundation	On loan to Steven Isserlis

Pawle	1730	Chimei Museum	Once loaned to Yo-Yo Ma in 1999 when Petunia's neck was damaged before a concert in Taiwan.

Braga	1731	On loan to Myung-wha Chung

Stuart	1732	Frederick the Great, Steven Honigberg	According to Vladimir Putin, his friend Sergei Roldugin bought the instrument for $12 mln.

Paganini-Ladenburg	1736	Nippon Music Foundation	This cello, and the Paganini-Desaint violin of 1686, the Paganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727 and the Paganini-Mendelssohn viola of 1731, comprise the Paganini Quartet.

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When Petunia's neck was damaged, he borrowed the Pawle Stradivarius cello from the Chimei Museum for a concert in Taiwan.

final_sentence: When Petunia's neck was damaged, he borrowed the Pawle Stradivarius cello from the Chimei Museum for a concert in Taiwan.