The Markees is a violin made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona.
The violin is owned by the Music Chamber of Hong Kong, having been purchased in 2004 from a professor at the Juilliard School of Music.
It was loaned to Leung Kin-fung, concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic,[1] but has been returned.
[2] The Markees is one of six Stradivari violins that have been preserved with the original varnish.
It was previously owned by Professor Karl Markees (1865–1926), a Swiss violinist who studied under Joseph Joachim.