Bass viol

"Belly of two pieces of pine, single purfled [bordered] and with the soundholes placed rather high. Back of two pieces of sycamore. The body is simply lined with kerfing and with thin corner blocks. The neck, rounded at the root, has been lengthened by [a] packing piece. The pegbox is grafted to the neck and has a finely carved head of a grotesque old woman. Modern tailpiece with a carved ivory plaque (possibly part of a tobacco rasp) attached to an end pin. Fingerboard with tortoiseshell and ivory marquetry and floral scrolls of the Tielke type. Six pegs." - Anthony Baines:Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments. (London, 1998), p. 7.