Carved and Painted Wood Ship and Steamship Diorama, Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century. The American half hull fully-rigged ship flying a pennant inscribed "MARINER" along with house flags, fitted with a wheelhouse, deckhouse and three figures, and the steamboat sailing before the painted background depicting a lighthouse on a rocky coast; housed in an ebonized wood shadow box. Shadow box: H: 21.375 in., W: 33.5 in., D: 6.5 in.

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21.375 x 33.5 x 6.5 in