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Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD® is an independent, family-run British fine art and antiques dealership and online gallery, incorporated in England and Wales on 22 April 2024 under company registration number 15666518.
Led by directors Michael and Victoria, the company specialises in carefully selected British and European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts, serving private collectors, galleries, interior designers, art consultants and institutional buyers throughout the United Kingdom and internationally.
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By extending the useful life of existing pieces, the antiques trade can help reduce demand for newly manufactured decorative goods while preserving traditional craftsmanship and cultural heritage.
Historic paintings, sculpture and period furnishings bring individuality, character and enduring aesthetic value to both traditional and contemporary interiors.
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Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD®
Registered Office:
71–75 Shelton Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9JQ
United Kingdom
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Mickle Trafford
Chester
Cheshire
United Kingdom
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Large Majestic Painting 5 Masted Steel Hull Sailing Ship Potosi Navigating Drakes Passage
REF: LA526376
£5,000
€5,994
$6,692
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Description
Dramatic Victorian seascape marine oil painting on canvas 5 Masted Steel Hull Sailing Ship Potosi Navigating Drakes Passage.
Impress your clients & guests make an art statement with this breath-taking nautical masterpiece to display on your office wall space or home interior.
Inscribed verso Potosi Launched June 8th 1895. Signed in the bottom corner by the British artist Job. Beginning of the 20th century (c.1900).
It is set in original decorative gilt frame, with hanging thread on the back ready for immediate wall display. Large proportion sized frame being 110cm wide and 79.5cm high.
Title “Steel Hull Barque 5 Masted Ship Potosi Navigating Drakes Passage” C1900 by artist Job.
Your focus is first drawn to the large Potosi sailing ship in side profile heading to the right. In the notorious dangerous Drakes Passage. Bravely sailing along fierce large whitewater cap waves which are breathtaking. The ship is has 5 tall masts, the top section sails have been folded away. In the distance on the left flank is a steam ship and on the opposite flank a tall sail ship by Cape Horn Lighthouse.
Potosi was a five-masted steel hull barque bulk, nitrate carrier built in 1895 by Joh. C. Tecklenborg ship yard in Geestemünde, Germany, for the sailing ship company F. Laeisz as a trading vessel. The naval architect was Dr Georg Wilhelm Claussen. Built at yard number 133. Tonnage 4,027 Grt, displacement 8350 ts, length 436ft (133 m), beam 49.7 ft (15.1m) height 210.96 ft (64.30m) & draft 25.49 ft (7.77m/). 2 continuous decks, poop, midship & forecastle decks. Its primary purpose was as a "nitrate clipper" collecting guano in South America for use in chemical companies in Germany (mainly for making explosives and fertiliser). As its shipping route was between Germany, Bolivia until 1870 but, during the "pacific War" was transferred to Chile, it was designed to be capable of withstanding the rough weather encountered around Cape Horn.
Potosi was named after the Bolivian town of Potosí (the highest city in the world), its name beginning with "P" according to a Laeisz' tradition begun in the 1880s. The Potosi and sister ships became known as the Flying P Line and were described by Robert Carter as "without doubt, the most successful fleet of sail-driven ships ever assembled under one flag. Potosi had five masts and was rigged as a barque, meaning that the first four masts were square-rigged, each carrying six sails, and the fifth mast carried three fore-and-aft-sails. She was the third windjammer in the world merchant fleet with that kind of rigging, after the France I of the Antoine-Dominique Bordes line of Bordeaux, and the first German (auxiliary) steel barque Maria Rickmers of the Rickmers line.
In total, within the world merchant fleet, there were only six windjammers of this class of five-masted barque rigging, with four masts having carried five, six or partly seven sails on each mast: France I, Maria Rickmers(carried seven sails (skysails) on fore, main, mizzen masts, jigger mast with six sails), Potosi, R.C. Rickmers, France II (carried five sails as a bald header), and København The Potosi's shipping line sister ship, Preussen also had five masts, but was square rigged on each mast.
The idea of building such a ship for the Laeisz fleet came from the famous Laeisz-captain Robert Hilgendorf, who was to become the Potosi's first master. His considerations and ideas had a great influence on the ship's design and he was the supervising ship officer when the huge barque was under construction. She was assigned the call sign Rkgb, and as with all P-liners her hull was black with a white waterline and a red underwater ship—the colours of the German flag at that time. Author Daniel S. Parrott describes the features of the "Flying P-Liners" and says "The effectiveness of the Flying P-Line lay not only in the construction of the vessel but also in their management." He also points out that "none of the four- or five-masted Laeisz ships ever foundered or was dismasted in a Cape Horn storm in the course of countless voyages."
During World War I, she was interned in Chile, and was then given away as reparation Under Chilean ownership, she was renamed the Flora(sign Qepd). In 1925, she caught fire in the Atlantic and eventually had to be sunk by artillery. Tonnage 4,027 Grt, displacement 8350 ts, length 436ft (133 m), beam 49.7 ft (15.1m) height 210.96 ft (64.30m) & draft 25.49 ft (7.77m/). 2 continuous decks, poop, midship & forecastle decks.
The most dangerous treacherous voyages for ships to travel is the sea route between Hamburg and Chile, involving the waters around Cape Horn, is the Drake Passage, known for its powerful currents, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, waves top 40ft (12m) high waves, and unpredictable weather. It is a 620 mile stretch of water between the tip of South America & the Antarctica Peninsula. The passage is named after the 16th century English Explorer and privateer Sir Francis Drake. The Drake passage is narrowest choke point around Antarctica, its shape strongly influences the circulation of water the global oceanic circulation as well as the global climate.
Provenance private southern shire estate, labels verso southern shire high end auction, Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd & museum exhibited.
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measurements
Height:
79.5 cm
Width:
110 cm
Depth:
4.5 cm
declaration
Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD has clarified that the Large Majestic Painting 5 Masted Steel Hull Sailing Ship Potosi Navigating Drakes Passage (LA526376) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1900
condition
Offered in fine used condition. Painting surface is overall good condition, canvas having various craquelure & foxing stains commensurate with usage and age. Frame which has various general wear, scuffs, chips, losses & repairs with some minor paint touch ups to the corners.
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Date of Manufacture:
c.1900
location
This Large Majestic Painting 5 Masted Steel Hull Sailing Ship Potosi Navigating Drakes Passage is located in Greater London, United Kingdom
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