Bowl
Category
Historic Services / Food & drink preparation
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
86 mm (H)375 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Newbury
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332451
Summary
Turned wooden bowl. Simple grooves round rim. Probably CPW Item 540 - 'Shallow wooden bowl. Treen-makers of Bucklebury Common, Newbury, Berks. Ten families were working at the craft. By 1915 only one worker was left. Bowls were turned on a pole lathe - up to 24' dia.'
Provenance
CPW Item 540 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.