Details
An important presentation model of a late 18th Century French ship
with a carved solid hull planked over with boxwood veneer, the planking on the hull and deck has been properly fastened either with trunnels or brass pins, with built-up topsides, ebonized whale strake and gun deck with gun ports which have been closed. Among the many splendid details of this model is a finely carved classical figurehead of a woman with a crown supported on the stem by rosettes and other carved deatils. Other details include pin and fife rails, stove pipe, belfry and bell, anchors, hammock racks, main deck cutout showing gun deck planking, cannon ball racks, grating, cleats, capstan, companionway hatch, ship's wheel, rigged steering lines, aft cabin skylight. The quarter galleries are capped with a fish scale and floral motif and the windows with painted draperies. At the top of the transom below the rail is a carved peacock and floral motif and on either side of the five windows are rosettes bordered on either side with Greek columns. The rudder is mounted on brass pintles and gudgeons, and has rope check stops. The masts and spars on the model are all hand turned and properly done to scale. The lower masts are bound and seized with chafe plates on the forward edge. All three masts are rigged with tops and spreaders and the lower and main yards are rigged with stun's'l booms. The rigging is in excellent condition and much is original. The rigging has been hand laid and twisted to scale. The ratlines are all knotted and seized and the other standing rigging is in similiar condition except where obviously replaced (much of the running rigging has been replaced with some original rigging remaining). The blocks and deadeyes are mostly original and all are hand carved and finely finished.
This model was probably a French frigate circa 1770 which was converted to a merchant ship for use after the French-American war.
56 x 45in. (142.3 x 114,4cm.)
with a carved solid hull planked over with boxwood veneer, the planking on the hull and deck has been properly fastened either with trunnels or brass pins, with built-up topsides, ebonized whale strake and gun deck with gun ports which have been closed. Among the many splendid details of this model is a finely carved classical figurehead of a woman with a crown supported on the stem by rosettes and other carved deatils. Other details include pin and fife rails, stove pipe, belfry and bell, anchors, hammock racks, main deck cutout showing gun deck planking, cannon ball racks, grating, cleats, capstan, companionway hatch, ship's wheel, rigged steering lines, aft cabin skylight. The quarter galleries are capped with a fish scale and floral motif and the windows with painted draperies. At the top of the transom below the rail is a carved peacock and floral motif and on either side of the five windows are rosettes bordered on either side with Greek columns. The rudder is mounted on brass pintles and gudgeons, and has rope check stops. The masts and spars on the model are all hand turned and properly done to scale. The lower masts are bound and seized with chafe plates on the forward edge. All three masts are rigged with tops and spreaders and the lower and main yards are rigged with stun's'l booms. The rigging is in excellent condition and much is original. The rigging has been hand laid and twisted to scale. The ratlines are all knotted and seized and the other standing rigging is in similiar condition except where obviously replaced (much of the running rigging has been replaced with some original rigging remaining). The blocks and deadeyes are mostly original and all are hand carved and finely finished.
This model was probably a French frigate circa 1770 which was converted to a merchant ship for use after the French-American war.
56 x 45in. (142.3 x 114,4cm.)