With full standing and running rigging with wood blocks, degame spars and limewood masts, hull details include lion figurehead, hair rails with figurines surmounted by carved male figures, gun ports with lion heads and wreaths, palm tree chain whale brackets with dead eyes, stern gallery details including scrollwork, nympths and coat-of-arms in gilt, golden pine main planking with sycamore beams and gratings, ship's bell and canopy, capstan, bilge pumps, companionways, deck rigs, guns in carriages with blocks and tackle and three stern lanterns, ensign, pennant and Union Jack, finished in white, natural wood and black with Venetian red gunwales and gilded decorations, mounted on two turned wood columns on wood base, glazed display case
29¹⁄₂ in. (75 cm.) high; 34¹⁄₂ in. (87.6 cm.) wide; 14³⁄₄ in. (37.5 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 15 October 1992, lot 185.

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