Blackwall Frigate In Chiante Bottle

Price: NZ$299.46

Code: UNQ 00266

This beautifully crafted model ship in a Chiante bottle is marked CM Stewart 1927 New Zealand in carefully painted white lettering on its base. The sails are very well detailed and the masts of a superior height due to the shape of this bottle. It sits on an old barometer ships wheel surround by the looks of it and may not be its original support but suits it very well the green of the bottle sitting well with the oak timber grain.
This is in excellent condition and has been been made by someone with great skill and understanding of the subject.

Blackwall frigate was the colloquial name for a type of three-masted full-rigged ship built between the late 1830s and the mid-1870s.
They were originally intended as replacements for the British East Indiaman in the trade between England, the Cape of Good Hope, India and China, but from the 1850s were also employed in the trade between England, Australia and New Zealand.

The first Blackwall frigates were designed and built by Wigram and Green at Blackwall Yard on the River Thames. Under different owners these yards had built East Indiamen since the early 17th century as well as warships for the Royal Navy.
Whereas the traditional East Indiaman had double stern galleries, the Blackwall frigate had a single gallery and was so named partly because it was superficially similar in appearance to a frigate of the Royal Navy. With only a single gallery, the hull-lines at the stern could be very fine and combined with relatively fine underwater lines at the bow, Blackwall frigates were fast sailing ships, although not as fast as the clipper ships that appeared in the late 1840s.

Overall bottle length is 10 1/2”, 267mm with a 4 1/2” 114mm diameter at widest.
A lovely piece set to grace any study, library, office or holiday retreat.