Lot 279: A miniature ivory model of the America's Cup defender Vigilant

William E. Hitchcock
the hull of the model is built up in ivory lifts with a black painted bottom and natural topsides. The deck of the model fitted with a number of details in baleen, including: spinnaker poles, deck hatches, boat, companionway, binnacle and wheel and other details. Rigged with ivory mast and spars, standing and running rigging, and mounted on a bone veneer base with corner posts and chains and decorated with the New York Yacht Club burgee painted in polychrome. Surmounting a pair of acrylic cubes within a circular domed glass case
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm.) cased