{"id":40783,"date":"2020-03-18T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T09:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/?product=jacques-bocquay-viola"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:59:49","slug":"jacques-bocquay-viola","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/product\/jacques-bocquay-viola\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Boquay viola ca. 1720"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A Beautiful historical Jacques Boquay viola ca. 1720.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A super rare old historical French viola,\u00a0made ca. 1720 (300 years old !). <br \/>One of the oldest French instrument schools known,were those of the Boquay school. <br \/>Here we have a beautiful instrument in a good condition for ts age, made in Jacques Bocquay atelier. <br \/>A two-piece back of fine maple, the beautifull French scroll later. Like many large viola&#8217;s from that period , <br \/>the viola has been resized, in the 19th century. <br \/>The work is quite good, a beautiful amber \/ brown varnish, <br \/>and elegant outlines an fine purfling. As we can read in the Henley violin dictionary, <br \/>there are almost no Bocquyi violas left with their original scrolls on.(they put them on the old Italian viola&#8217;s). <br \/>This is your chance to own a historical instrument ! <br \/>This old viola comes with a new set of strings. <\/p>\n<p>The viola produces a strong open, but warm tone. <br \/>LOB: 390 mm (4\/4).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More <a title=\"More violas\" href=\"https:\/\/europeanviolins.eu\/en\/old-violas\/\" target=\"_self\">More violas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Boquay viola ca. 1720<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[283],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-40783","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-old-violas","first","outofstock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/40783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/40783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=40783"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=40783"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=40783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}