... an unidentified naval officer...
A few more covetable items from the Charles Miller auction which is taking place in London next Wednesday...
Look at this beautiful navy boy, isn't he gorgeous? I find it rather sad that he has lost his name. Someone must have cherished this little portrait once.
Miniature portrait of an unidentified naval officer of c.1820, oil on ivory ovoid in glazed pocket case, 2½ x 2in. (6.5 x 5cm.) Estimate: £100-150.
These two Napoleonic French prisoner of war model ships are expected to fetch between £10,000 and £25,000! The ship on the left is HMS Canopus a 100 gun first rate ship of the line made from bone and baleen. The catalogue entry states that she was recently found in the attic of a country house in Southern Ireland, family hearsay places the model to a mid-19th Century naval officer ancestor and it's thought to have been in the attic for over 100 years. The ship on the right is a boxwood and baleen model of the 74 gun Guerrier captured at the Battle of the Nile.
Look at this beautiful navy boy, isn't he gorgeous? I find it rather sad that he has lost his name. Someone must have cherished this little portrait once.
Miniature portrait of an unidentified naval officer of c.1820, oil on ivory ovoid in glazed pocket case, 2½ x 2in. (6.5 x 5cm.) Estimate: £100-150.
These two Napoleonic French prisoner of war model ships are expected to fetch between £10,000 and £25,000! The ship on the left is HMS Canopus a 100 gun first rate ship of the line made from bone and baleen. The catalogue entry states that she was recently found in the attic of a country house in Southern Ireland, family hearsay places the model to a mid-19th Century naval officer ancestor and it's thought to have been in the attic for over 100 years. The ship on the right is a boxwood and baleen model of the 74 gun Guerrier captured at the Battle of the Nile.