This is the starboard side of a wooden church-ship model which was made in the late 16th or early 17th century. The model was probably built to celebrate the marriage and safe return to Scotland of James VI and his bride, Anne of Denmark, in 1590.
The upper details of the model are disproportionate as the ship was designed to be suspended and thus viewed from below. The ship is fully rigged and was re-rigged in the early 18th century.
This church-ship model has been part of the collections of Trinity House in Leith in Edinburgh and is unique in the Scottish context with no other early ship models surviving.
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