Antique Pennants

The posterior portion of the ship is further ornamented with a protruding pole, accented with a red hot enamel horizontal pennant flag. The plinth is supported by four impressive bu...

The third and final mounted segment forms the spire: a tapering square structure executed in dense foliate filigree, rising elegantly upward and culminating in a ball and pennant fin...

It proudly flies the British White Ensign from the stern and a long pennant from the mainmast. The vessel navigates toward a green grassy headland topped with a small coastal structu...

Langley's private signal, which can be seen in the painting flying from the top of the mainmast, was a red swallowtail pennant with a white diamond enclosing a smaller blue diamond.

She was rebuilt in 1878, her length being increased to some 69 feet and was described by Brentano’s Aquatic Monthly and Sporting Gazetteer in the following glowing terms ‘No yacht at...

The ship cuts through a calm sea patterned with white ripples, flying the White Ensign from the stern and a long, white commissioning pennant (complete with tassel) from the mainmast...

The upper section features a selection of medieval design motifs and armor details, including three patterned textile squares, multiple helmet styles, and decorative lance pennants. ...

The ship’s name “ROUEN” appears clearly on the central masthead pennant. The vessel is depicted with accurate detail: twin funnels issuing coal smoke, lifeboats stowed, and decks lin...

With one hand, he tightly grips the reins of a spirited, muscular horse, while in the other he brandishes a long spear or lance adorned with cloth streamers or pennants. The horse is...

19th Century Sailor's Folk Art Woolie with Triple Decker Ship of the Line and Sloop, ca 1850, depicting a starboard side view of a majestic square-rigged triple decker warship under ...

At left, marked A, is a small cavalry guidon, minimal in form with a forked pennant. Below it, B shows the flag of the Janissaries, the elite infantry corps of the Ottoman Sultan.

He painted as well for Robert More, Joseph Banks, and for the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. Many of his paintings of birds were used as the basis for book illustrations, often eng...

Exceptional and intricate blown glass ship, in red, white, and blue, tall and shapely with a billowing commission pennant and flag, probably Czechoslovakia, last quarter of the 19th ...

The print is titled 'The Javan Squirrel of Pennant, Sciurus Bicolor' and includes a representation of the species, which is distinguished by its large size and distinctive bi-colored...

Her American Ensign outreaches her name pennant, and a gilded pilot house eagle sits atop the unusual 360-cabin structure of her bridge.

Princessinscribed upon it along with the yacht’s pennant. To the base is the retailer’s sticker for Benson and Hedges, stating that this is a design patented in 1919.

He stands under a cliff, and on the right there is a ship at anchor in the bay, flying the red ensign and commissioning pennant. At this stage the sitter is not in uniform and the s...

A doleful Pierrot figure (a lovestruck clown character from commedia dell'arte) plays a lute before a castle with streaming pennants; a country caravan, daffodils, leafy trees and a ...

Quite likely this is AMBASSADRESS first yacht club's cruise of 1877 to Newport, and Astor has commissioned the artist to capture it for posterity, with the club pennant and his priva...

Second Image Description 1. **Crimson Rosella (Pennant's Lori - Platycercus Pennantii):** This parrot is known for its vibrant red and blue feathers, with a deep blue head and neck,...

Miller is in full sail with sailors active on her deck, with her brightly colored name pennant snapping in the wind alongside the American flag and company flag.

The word “vane” is derived from the Angle-Saxon word “fane,” which means “flag.” These pennants were first made from cloth, then from metal and balanced to turn in the wind.

The American Merchant Bark at the center of this painting is rendered in excellent detail, from her house flag and pennant, to her rigging and sails, and down to her deck filled with...

In the background, there is a sidewheel passenger steamer in mid channel, while in the foreground two figures in a Gaff-Sloop with red pennant & the American ensign are shown. Three ...

The solo balloonist is in the gondola flying a red pennant. The crowd includes two horsemen, a figure up in a tree on the left hand side and a man with a dog.

The score card celebrates the Washington Base Ball Club as the 1924 World Series pennant winners. The Washington Senators beat the New York Giants in a best-of-seven playoffs with 4-3.

At that time Cao took Jingzhou, seized Jiangling, and then rolled eastward down the Yangtze River in warships chained up for over a thousand miles, with flags and pennant flaunting i...