Bass archlute made mostly of maple, with narrow lines of ebony and is covered with red varnish. Soundboard has a black border with mother-of-pearl inlay, edged with ebony; the same border is carried up around the sides of the fingerboard. Fingerboard is faced with an ivory plaque engraved with elaborate Renaissance designs. Long neck of ebony, decorated with ivory, has two sets of tuning pegs, the lower in an arched pegbox, the neck terminating in a scroll and second peg box, shaped like that of a violoncello. The bridge is of ebonized wood; a parchment rose of Gothic design is set in the soundboard, within a circular frame decroated with mother-of-pearl. Probably Italian.