Spinning top
Prisoner-of-war
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ivory, Paint
Measurements
61 mm (Height); 37 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339411
Summary
Ivory spinning top, the central section with twelve sides and painted numbers in red and black 1 - 12, and 7 black radial lines on its top. Prisoner-of-war work. In notebook no.5, page 44 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'Nursery no.116 Another' (Bone Teetotum) Includes sketch. See also 1339429.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12 (painted)
Makers and roles
Prisoner-of-war
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 44