Umbrella
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Paint, Textile, Whalebone
Measurements
978 mm (Length)203 mm (Diameter)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338453
Summary
Umbrella, green (blueish tinge), chequer pattern band at rim. Stem of metal painted to resemble cane and ridged to indicate the nodes. Flattened spherical knob. Whalebone ribs, metal levers. -'contained in a walking stick of brass painted to resemble malacca.' CPW comments ref 'brown' would therefore refer to the four. Probably CPW Items 560/563
Provenance
CPW Items 560/563 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.