Spinning wheel
Prisoner-of-war
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone, Thread
Measurements
150 x 60 x 36 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339409
Summary
Bone model of two figures at a spinning wheel, on two platforms. The lower platform with two connected cogs and a turning handle for one of them. The upper platform with the spinning wheel, a seated female figure in a poke bonnet and a standing male figure in a top hat, red jacket and black boots. Male figure rotates. The whole standing on a central turned pedestal foot. 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