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206 - A FINE FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE SHIP MODEL FOR A FIRST-RATE SHIP OF THE LINE
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£10,000 - 15,000 (€11,000 - 18,000)Sale fees
A FINE FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE SHIP MODEL FOR A FIRST-RATE SHIP OF THE LINE the 15in. planked and pinned hull with guns run out of ports with red-painted lids, carved warrior-form figurehead with polychrome cloak, fine decorative stern with gilt window tracing, chain plates with triple drilled and rigged deadeyes, pierced headrails with boomkins, catheads with oxidised anchors with bone stocks, planked and pinned decks crowded with fittings including belaying rails, capstan, gratings, well deck with balustrade, carved fitted ship's boat, water casks, companionways, saloon lights, chicken coops etc., bound bone masts with yards, s'tun'sl booms, fighting tops with polychrome decoration, standing and running rigging with bone blocks and tackle, main mast streamer, mounted on cradles to wooden parquetry base with anchor lines secured at bow, secured within metal-bound glazed case with loose Parker Gallery plate for H.M.S. Dreadnought, the model -- 18 x 25in. (46 x 63.5cm.); cased -- 23 x 31 x 11in. (58.5 x 79 x 28cm.) Provenance: With the Parker Gallery, London.
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