Tenor viol

This tenor viol has a fingerboard and tailpiece decorated in marquetry with contrasting boxwood inlaid with sand-shaded walnut. The scroll is heavily carved with a deeply cut floral decoration. It has double lines of inlaid decorative ‘purfling' around the edges of both front and back and similar inlaid lines around both sound holes, In the centre of the soundboard there is a decorative inlaid ‘rosette' which is cut from maple and backed with punched parchment.