Details
A mid-19th Century French Prisoner of War style model of a second rate 90 gun Ship of the Line
the hull carved from a solid piece of ivory, details include polychrome figurehead, bound bow sprit with bound masts complete with tops and trees, two anchors, anchor floats, pin and fife rails, cannons and cannonades, main deck opening to lower decks, belfry, cargo hatch. ladders, quarter galleries with windows backed in gold foil, stern balcony and galleries carved in ivory with polychrome ornamental painting on upper most part of transom, two ship's boats run out to the base. Mounted on an ivory base with decorative polychrome in a floral design.
10½ x 9½in. (26.7 x 24.2cm.), stand (2)
the hull carved from a solid piece of ivory, details include polychrome figurehead, bound bow sprit with bound masts complete with tops and trees, two anchors, anchor floats, pin and fife rails, cannons and cannonades, main deck opening to lower decks, belfry, cargo hatch. ladders, quarter galleries with windows backed in gold foil, stern balcony and galleries carved in ivory with polychrome ornamental painting on upper most part of transom, two ship's boats run out to the base. Mounted on an ivory base with decorative polychrome in a floral design.
10½ x 9½in. (26.7 x 24.2cm.), stand (2)