Lute

Pipa. "Balloon guitar". Four strings. Pear-shaped. Body and neck are of one piece. Dark wood with ivory on neck and on string holder. Peg box of lighter wood curving back. Carved bat ornament on top of peg box curving around to front. Four long hexagonal pegs. Poor condition with a large crack in body, ivory missing from neck, string holder detached and three pegs missing. None of the more than twelve frets are present.