



Lot 64W
A large French Prisoner of War bone model of the Diana 46x16x39ins.(125x41x99cm)
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15 April 2014, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £18,750 inc. premium
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A large French Prisoner of War bone model of the Diana
Hull of pinned bone planks on a wooden core, with baleen wales. Copper sheathed below the waterline. Carved figurehead and stern decoration, the hull pierced for 44 bone and brass cannon. Decks of laid bone planks, with details including galley chimneys, anchors and buoys, belfry, capstans, hatches and companionway. With three ship's boats slung between main and foremast and another on davits aft. Bone spars and detailed running and standing rigging. Set on bone crutches on a bone and baleen decorated baseboard, with turned wooden feet. The model 32ins.(81cm)long. In a glazed display case. 46x16x39ins.(125x41x99cm)
Footnotes
There was a French 38 gun Frigate in the French Navy called the Diane. Built at Toulon in 1796, she fought at the Battle of the Nile, escaped and was captured at Malta in August 1800. Re-commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Niobe, she was sold out of the service in 1816.
Saleroom notices
Please note: this model should more properly be described as "French Prisoner of War style".