Spinning wheel
Prisoner-of-war
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone, Thread
Measurements
133 x 75 x 34 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339407
Summary
Bone model on two levels of a spinning wheel. Lower platform with three interconnected cogs and a turning handle. The upper platform with the spinning wheel and two ladies wearing poke bonnets, seated on tall, red-backed chairs, a child and a spotted dog. Dog and a lady’s arm also move when lower handle turned. Turned pedestal base to the whole. Prisoner-of-war work.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Prisoner-of-war