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Auction archive: Lot number 220

A miniature Napoleonic prisoner of war model of a 90 gun ship

Auction 20.07.2005
20 Jul 2005
Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$20,400
Auction archive: Lot number 220

A miniature Napoleonic prisoner of war model of a 90 gun ship

Auction 20.07.2005
20 Jul 2005
Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$20,400
Beschreibung:

A miniature Napoleonic prisoner of war model of a 90 gun ship the hull planked and pinned in alternating bands of bone and horn with a polchromed figurehead of a man, and carved and pierced quarter galleries and transom. Detailed with anchors, catheads, capstan, belfry, railings, barrels, ladders, deck gratings, deck house, cannons, boat on davits at stern, and many other details. The model is rigged with a bow sprit, dolphin stryker, three masts, cross spars, standing and running rigging, and bracing lines. Displayed on a pair of ivory cradles mounted on a wood block within a soldered framed glass case with an ebonized base 9 x 13½ in. (22.9 x 34.3 cm.) cased

Auction archive: Lot number 220
Auction:
Datum:
20 Jul 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

A miniature Napoleonic prisoner of war model of a 90 gun ship the hull planked and pinned in alternating bands of bone and horn with a polchromed figurehead of a man, and carved and pierced quarter galleries and transom. Detailed with anchors, catheads, capstan, belfry, railings, barrels, ladders, deck gratings, deck house, cannons, boat on davits at stern, and many other details. The model is rigged with a bow sprit, dolphin stryker, three masts, cross spars, standing and running rigging, and bracing lines. Displayed on a pair of ivory cradles mounted on a wood block within a soldered framed glass case with an ebonized base 9 x 13½ in. (22.9 x 34.3 cm.) cased

Auction archive: Lot number 220
Auction:
Datum:
20 Jul 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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