Sloping spinning wheel
Category
Furniture
Date
1900
Materials
Oak, metal and pine.
Measurements
546 x 203 mm; 420 mm (Diameter); 406 mm (Length)
Place of origin
United Kingdom
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332081
Summary
Sloping bed cottage spinning wheel with a double band drive system and stamped with 'MC(?)K' as maker's mark. From the United Kingdom, circa 1900. Wheel rim and table in pine with the treadle possibly oak and the spokes and legs an unknown wood. Medium colour stain. Stoutly made Saxony cottage wheel with ring turned beading on the legs and 'A' pattern treadle. Mother of all is of square section sitting on an unusual square collar with scalloped edges. Maidens possibly replacements as they appear to be made from two chair legs as ends at top look like they stood on the floor. Flyer is unusual of metal form with serrations along the straight edges (a style usually associated with finer quality wheels). There is a mark on the table 'M' middle letter 'C' or 'O' is somewhat indecipherable. Patricia Baines suggests the wheel might be Scottish because of the inscription but this may not be so as maker's stamps are usually done more definatively on the table end. Origin is the United Kingdom but with region unknown. Estimated to be circa 1900. No parts missing but some parts are replacements such as the maidens, the tension screw, the footman and the distaff. Condidion - wheel is split. Early NT ref SNO/DC3. Information and digital photograph provided by David and Valerie Bryant 2006. In notebook no.4, page 88 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Top Gallant 15. Low Irish Wheel In records of early eighteen hundreds this wheel is always called the 'Dutch Wheel'. It was introduced into Ireland from Holland by the Earl of Strafford. This wheel has elaborate turning.'. Includes sketch with label 'Low Irish'.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
MCK
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, Page 88