Further to Chris's delightful model and Asmat's reassurance that the Maze collection still survives: I'm presently reading (and hugely enjoying) GRG Worcester's enchanting book,
The Junkman Smiles. In it, he recounts how he went to a vast amount of trouble, inconvenience, discomfort and not a little danger to investigate and sketch the Lu-ch'uan or Oar Boat, which he considered 'such an inadequate description of the craft that I prefer to call it the Crooked-Bow Junk.' These were used to transport salt from Tzeliutsing (which, as far as I can make out, is the present day Zigong). The salt was made from brine, drawn up from wells, some of which reached over 4,000 ft, and was frequently processed using natural gas from the same well. The first mention of these wells is around 250 AD! Anyway, the point of this post is that Worcester was so fascinated by these little junks, that he made scale patterns from carefully drawn-up plans, with 'nothing of the least importance omitted'. and got two local junk carpenters to make a model. There is a photograph of it in the book, and it looks quite wonderful.
The postscript to the story is that it was built to the same scale as the model of the Crooked-Stern Junk, and presented it to Sir Frederick Maze, but as it was in real life only a small boat, by junk standards at 57ft, the model measured 4ft 9ins in length and was refused on the grounds that all the other models were never less than 6ft long. I won't say what I think about Sir Fred's decision.
GRG kept the model, however, and obviously managed to get it back to England intact (which considering how many of his possessions were lost to fire, looting, bandits and war is quite an achievement), because he mentions trying it out in his duck pond and being fascinated by how truly it tracked without any form of steering.
I wonder what happened to it.