Spinning top
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
70 mm (Length)40 mm (Diameter)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338976
Summary
Child's wooden spinning top in the form of a lady. Painted white and green with a green hat, and brown hair. Handle for spinning forms top of green hat. Skirt chipped on one side. In notebook no.5, page 44 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'Nursery no.117 Wooden Top painted figure of a woman' Includes sketch with dimensions.
Provenance
CPW item 117 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 44