AN ATTRACTIVE AND FINELY RESTORED EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE SHIP MODEL
representing a three-deck 90-gun Third Rate ship of the line, with planked and pinned hull, ebonised wales, brass guns with red port lids, finely carved warrior-form figurehead, bow and stern decoration, scored decks with fittings including capstan, belfry, water casks, gratings, well deck, deck lights, chicken coops etc, bound masts with yards, s'tun'sl booms, double dolphin striker and boomkins with standing and running rigging, bone blocks and tackle, streamer and ensign, mounted on 'sun-burst' inlaid base with carved railings and polychrome 'Jack Tar' corner guards, contained within glazed dome cover on cloth-covered base. Measurements overall -- 11 x 16 x 10in. (28 x x 40.5 x 25.5cm.)

++Finely restored overall, re-rigged, replaced blocks, some replaced components, cloth base faded.