Cockerel
Category
Decorative ornaments
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plaster, Lead
Measurements
127 x 105 x 50 mm
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339002.2
Summary
Model - One of a pair of painted plaster cockerels with lead feet, painted white with black tail, brown wings and head. Head has been reattached. Tail missing a piece. Paint flaking. Other cockerel in store, broken. CPW item number 204 (Seventh Heaven) In notebook no.5, page 56 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'Seventh Heaven 204. Cock and Hen of Papier Maché, Wax coated.'.
Provenance
CPW item 204 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.