Spinning wheel
Prisoner-of-war
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone
Measurements
102 x 49 x 51 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339415
Summary
Bone model on two levels. Upper level has a spinning wheel with two ladies in a poke bonnets, one seated at the spinning wheel, the other standing. The lower section has a turning handle for two interconnected cogs which operates the seated lady's arm to turn the spinning wheel. The whole stands on four bun feet. 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