http://collections.mfa.org/internal/media/dispatcher/763873/resize%3Aformat%3DfullAmerican bass violabout 1800Benjamin CrehoreMaple, pine, ebonyOne-piece back of slab-cut maple. Ribs and neck similar. Back of pegbox finished flat with incised pattern of half circles at lower edge. Two-piece belly of wide-grain pine. Painted purfling. Shield-shaped tuning pegs of oak or ash stained dark brown, with cone-shaped ivory buttons at ends. Later fingerboard, tailpiece, and saddle of ebony; the tailpiece with inlaid mother-of-pearl shield. Later nut of ivory. Later metal endpin with rosewood collar. Old maple bridge of unusual design, with one diamond and one triangle-shaped cut-out in the central portion. Later soundpost. Red-brown varnish. Interior construction: Footed neck, shaped to a point and with a hole for a screw (?), on platform carved from back. Wide lower block with chamfered corners. Rectangular liners and corner blocks. Wide bassbar.Musical instruments12.2000000000 Centimeterhttp://collections.mfa.org/objects/50921/rdf