Spinning wheel
Prisoner-of-war
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone, Thread
Measurements
110 x 45 x 39 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339412
Summary
Delicate bone model of a vertical spinning wheel. Wheel turned by a treadle and crank and contains design of small circles around interior. Wheel connected by fine thread to raised bobbin above, with vertical spindle arm to top of model next to bobbin. The stool with finely turned legs. 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