This is the starboard side of a wooden church-ship model built in the late 16th or early 17th century. The model was probably constructed 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.
The model may have hung in South Leith in Edinburgh, in the church of the minister who had married the royal couple in Norway.
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