Pochette

Pochette with straight-sided conical body. Front, maple, with figure of faint curl, is bent and highly arched, the transverse section resembling an ogival arch; no purfling. Bridge with widely-splayed rounded feet which rest on the concave outside edges of front. No soundpost but one deep transverse bar at mid-point of a figure-of-eight soundhole; two other small soundholes. Back of five staves veneered in tortoiseshell with ivory and ebony purfling, three white lines and two black, at joints; four of the same lines run up the back of the neck. Neck and neck-block of one piece of maple. Pegbox openbacked, of ?maple stained black, angled backwards quite sharply.