A prisoner-of-war bone model of a frigate, French, early 19th century,
the pinned and planked hull with horn starkes, three masts with standing and running rigging, carved bone lion figurehead, single gun deck with sixteen cannons on carriages, horseshoe-shaped stern galleries, on rectangular carved and latticed bone stand, now under glass dome and on ebonised wood base, the model 24 x 26.5cm (9 1/2 x 10 1/2in)