Mandolin

"Body of nine fluted ribs alternately of ivory with engraved scrollwork, and tortoiseshell on metal foil with intervening stringing of ebony. Pine belly with a sunk triple rose of carved wood. The neck, fingerboard and stringing between the ribs, and decoraton of the belly, have bands of small triangles of mother-of-pearl and ebony in marquetry. There are no frets. The pegbox has seven pegs, for four coursesm the treble single the rest double. The square finial is decorated with mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell marquetry". Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Part II: Non-Keyboard Instruments (London, 1998), p. 38.