Arch-cittern

"Back of two pieces of sycamore. Belly with a paper rose. The purfling resembles that on 11/12 [arch-cittern by Sébastien Renaut, Museum no.: 207-1882: i.e. "barber's pole purfling of ebony and mother of pearl"] and the sides of the body are singularly concave. Ebony fingerboard with seventeen frets. Pegboxes, number of strings, and oblique upper nut similar to 11/12 [i.e. "The main pegbox has eleven [tuning pegs], for four double courses and three single. The upper pegbox has five for five single basses, and has an oblique nut."] - Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), pp. 53-54.