Scale: About 1:18. A full hull model of a Chinese war junk or 'K'uai-tu' ('quick leaping'), made entirely in wood with metal and organic material fittings and painted in realistic colours. The depicted vessel has two masts, two rigged sails and two flag poles with flags. The hull is hollowed from a solid piece of wood, and is brightly painted yellow up to the waterline, with red-painted rubbings strakes, gunwales and forward face of the stem post, and green panel above the waterline. The forward part of the keel is pronounced and perforated. Fittings include eight spherical disc-like shields, mounted either side of the port and starboard broadsides and painted in a radiating pattern in white, red, yellow, black, brown and green; five pivot guns and a single deck-mounted mortar; eighteen oars and four sets of spears, stowed around the gunwales; a fenestrated rudder, a feature of Kwangtung craft; and a foremast and mainmast, both fully rigged with set sails. The model is mounted on a pair of squat, rectangular, black-painted pillar supports and displayed on a rectangular wooden baseboard painted to resemble figured walnut.