Kit

"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.