Live Auction 1186The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A.
A LARGE MODEL OF THE HULL OF A MAN-O'-WAR, POSSIBLY CONCEIVED AS A WINE COOLER FROM A NAVAL TAVERN
Lot 260

A LARGE MODEL OF THE HULL OF A MAN-O'-WAR, POSSIBLY CONCEIVED AS A WINE COOLER FROM A NAVAL TAVERN

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed19 September 2013

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GBP 5,625

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A LARGE MODEL OF THE HULL OF A MAN-O'-WAR, POSSIBLY CONCEIVED AS A WINE COOLER FROM A NAVAL TAVERN
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The forward section of the hull with later galvanised-liner, the stern painted with 'MARY MARY-PORT', extensive losses,
21 in. (53 cm.) high; 66 in. (168 cm.) long; 17 in. (43 cm.) wide (2)

Specialist note

It has been suggested that this may have been conceived as a wine-cooler for a naval tavern, so it is possible that the name to the stern is that of a Tavern, which may have once stood in the ship-building town of Maryport, Cumbria or that it may have been the name of a ship after which the model was conceived. Just such an object is illustrated in an engraving of a tavern interior by George Cruikshank (1792-1878), entitled Sailors Carousing of circa 1825, a copy of which is held in The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.