Pochette

Pochette (canino, sordino) with boat-shaped body. One-piece construction of pegbox, neck and back, which has six apparent staves, of maple. Low-arched front of wide grain, with f-shaped soundholes, close to s-shaped; edged with a wide ornamental purfling, consisting of a pattern of mother-of-pearl lozenges and discs; a third soundhole between bridge and end of fingerboard, pierced like a rudimentary lute rose. Back is veneered with ?ebony and bone marquetry of simple repeating foliage pattern; these veneers were put on after the front and cover the joint. Neck and pegbox stained black and inlaid with lines, dots and lozenges of bone and mother-of-pearl. Lion’s head finial to pegbox; boxwood pegs. Ebony fingerboard profusely inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Bridge new.