Ceramic monkey pencil-holder
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
180 x 100 mm
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Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1274594
Summary
Ceramic figure of a monkey, early twentieth century. The seated monkey, with hands clasped and knees bent, is shaped in the form of a pencil-holder, with a hole in the back for this purpose. Orange and buff-coloured earthenware, partially glazed. Shaw kept the monkey pencil-holder on his desk in the writing hut, filled with pens and pencils. The monkey can be seen there in photographs taken by professional photographers throughout the 1930s and 40s. The object also appears in several photographs taken by Shaw in the garden at Shaw’s Corner.
Provenance
The Shaw Collection. The house and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust by George Bernard Shaw in 1950, together with Shaw's photographic archive.
References
Bernard Shaw through the camera : 1948., p.44