Figure
Prisoner-of-war
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ivory, Wood, Foil, Thread
Measurements
105 x 64 x 29 mm
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339413
Summary
Model - figure group. Two female figures of carved ivory, wearing poke bonnets, decorated, carved skirts and red painted collars. Arms pivoted. One lady's arm connected to the central model of wool winding machine by thread. The figures sitting on high chairs, all raised on black wooden stand partially covered with decorative foil. 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