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"Narrow model, with body of perhaps pearwood, shaped to five faces and carved with floral patterns in low relief. Belly of pine with f-holes with added tails. The neck is inlaid with two flashes of darkened wood and the pegbox has a crudely carved head of an old woman wearing a cap. Tailpiece veneered with mother-of-pearl inlaid with a bearded mask carved in ivory. A fleur-de-lis is engraved on a light-coloured wooden panel set in the dark fingerboard" - Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), pp. 21-22.
- Date:
1780 - 1820 (Made) - Maker:
Unknown - Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum - Inventory number:
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France
- Measurements:Length: 43.5 cm total length, Length: 25 cm length of belly, Width: 3.5 cm
- View the original record:http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O372401