Beschreibung:

An extremely fine ½":1' scale exhibition-display quality fully-rigged and planked model of the Royal Yacht Caroline of 1749 modelled by M. Gebhard with bound masts, yards with foot ropes, detailed standing and running rigging with left and right hand wound rope as appropriate, scale blocks, the larger with sheaves and deck details including the crowned seated figure of the Queen with orb and sceptre flanked by cherubs, hair rails, anchors with bound wooden stocks, anchor floats, catheads with sheaves and lion's head decoration, bitts, belaying rails and pins, rope coils, deck rings, swivel guns, bell with canopy over, companionways, main deck with capstan, gratings, eight guns in carriages with tackle, fully appointed royal saloon with parquetry floors, finely carved tables laid with candleabre, cutlery, goblets etc, ornate wall mirrors, internal corridors and private chamber with similar appointment aft, with glazed doors and windows, planked coach roof with deck rails, decklights, whip-staff, stern lanterns with rear access doors and gilt decoratin and royal barge of clinker construction with frames, bottom boards, gratings, thwarts, correctly carved oars, anchor, tiller and rudder lashed above spare spars and topmasts and much other fine detailing. The hull, planked in maple over a 'bread and butter' former with fully planked and pinned decks is fitted with groteque-head scuppers, finely detailed composition relief stern and quarter cabin windows, the whole upperworks being covered in gilded reliefs of male and female figures, dolphins, mermaids, flowers, scrolls and mythical figures, the stern with royal arms and the figure of the Queen and finished in white to the waterline, black, pale blue, natural wood and Venetian red, secured to a black cradle stand on display board with brass legend plaque. Overall measurements -- 53 x 70in. (134.5 x 178cm.) See illustration