/Digs around
Feel free to use this one:
http://www.fantasticmaps.com/Gallery.../StGeorges.jpg

That's about the closest I've got.

As for the pedestal - I'd go for richly varnished wood from a sailing ship. This looks nautical to me. Looks like it should be mounted in front of the wheel of a 17th-18th century spice cutter (he says with no historical backing at all).