Lot Essay
Built based on the Chapelle drawing from the Smithsonian.
Details
A model of a Chebacco boat, Lion, of 1790
with maple frames and cherryplanking with bamboo nails, basswood deck with spars and blocks of cherry, deck furniture, two pair of long oars, standing rooms for hand-line fishing and the steersman, small cuddy forward with hearth for cooking and high chamferd-stem head for the mooring line. Mounted on mahogany pedestals on a mohogany baseboard.
17 x 14in. (43.2 x 35.6cm.), case
with maple frames and cherryplanking with bamboo nails, basswood deck with spars and blocks of cherry, deck furniture, two pair of long oars, standing rooms for hand-line fishing and the steersman, small cuddy forward with hearth for cooking and high chamferd-stem head for the mooring line. Mounted on mahogany pedestals on a mohogany baseboard.
17 x 14in. (43.2 x 35.6cm.), case