An important finely rigged and detailed Navy Board-style box and fruitwood model, known as HMS 'Breda', of a British 70 gun third rate of 1677-1703 built up from a contemporary hull and using very largely contemporary material. --46 x 53in (117 x 135cm). With bound masts, yards with foot ropes, scale blocks and dead eyes, standing and running rigging, much of the rope work left hand wound, and deck details including carved crowned lion figurehead, decorated hair rails, heads, catheads, gratings, belaying rails, bitts with male head decoration, capstan through two decks, deck rails, upper and main deck guns in carriages, three stern lanterns and other details. The hull, partially planked and pinned to reveal ribs and deck beams and 'tween decks, is finished in varnish and blue with venetian red bulwarks with extensive gilded carved decoration, the upper deck gunports with laurel wreaths, the glazed stern gallery with 'WM' monogram, male and female figures, horses, swags, Neptune, leaf scrolls and lion heads and glazed decorated quarter galleries bearing the arms of Nassau. Glazed mahogany case with mirror base and end opening door ( later ). Provenance: ex.R.Spence Collection. Exhibited at the Science Museum, London, 1931-32. c.f. Lees (James) 'The Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War 1625-1860', plates 1,2,6,7,8,9,28,29 and 53.
An important finely rigged and detailed Navy Board-style box and fruitwood model, known as HMS 'Breda', of a British 70 gun third rate of 1677-1703 built up from a contemporary hull and using very largely contemporary material. --46 x 53in (117 x 135cm). With bound masts, yards with foot ropes, scale blocks and dead eyes, standing and running rigging, much of the rope work left hand wound, and deck details including carved crowned lion figurehead, decorated hair rails, heads, catheads, gratings, belaying rails, bitts with male head decoration, capstan through two decks, deck rails, upper and main deck guns in carriages, three stern lanterns and other details. The hull, partially planked and pinned to reveal ribs and deck beams and 'tween decks, is finished in varnish and blue with venetian red bulwarks with extensive gilded carved decoration, the upper deck gunports with laurel wreaths, the glazed stern gallery with 'WM' monogram, male and female figures, horses, swags, Neptune, leaf scrolls and lion heads and glazed decorated quarter galleries bearing the arms of Nassau. Glazed mahogany case with mirror base and end opening door ( later ). Provenance: ex.R.Spence Collection. Exhibited at the Science Museum, London, 1931-32. c.f. Lees (James) 'The Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War 1625-1860', plates 1,2,6,7,8,9,28,29 and 53.
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