http://collections.mfa.org/internal/media/dispatcher/796389/resize%3Aformat%3DfullAmerican bass violabout 1800Benjamin CrehoreMaple, pine, ebonyOne-piece back of slab-cut maple. Ribs similar. Crude later neck with crude pegbox/scroll grafted on. Two-piece belly (with wings) of wide-grain (or slab-cut?) pine. No purfling. Later tuning pegs, fingerboard, and saddle of ebony. Old tailpiece of ebony with crude inlaid 8-point mother-of-pearl star, raised lozenge-shaped piece of ivory/bone, and ivory/bone strip above string holes. Later, thick dark red-brown varnish, crudely applied. Interior construction: Later hemispherical neck block, but apparently a platform carved from back for original set-up with footed neck. Wide lower block with chamfered corners. Some liners rectangular (later?) and some shaped. Very large corner blocks. Thin bassbar.Musical instruments11.8000000000 Centimeterhttp://collections.mfa.org/objects/51236/rdf