Flemish Harpsichord - Image 2

The unusual pattern above the keyboard consists of intertwining honeysuckle vines, flowers, and leaves through which run lions, cherubs, and griffins (creatures with the heads and wings of eagles and the bodies of lions). Below, painted in red on the name batten, is the maker's inscription, in Latin, 'Gommaar van Everbroeck made (me) in Antwerp.' The Latin motto on the fallboard, located below the keyboard, can be translated 'Not unless stirred do I sing.'