What-not
Prisoner-of-war
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone
Measurements
91 x 43 x 29 mm
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339422
Summary
Carved bone model of a what-not with three shelves and barley sugar twist uprights. The top shelf has eight table utensils, the middle shelf has six carved items and the bottom shelf has eight. 'Bought from Wyndham Payne, Cheltenham, 14th June 1945' (M. Jessup). Prisoner-of-war work.
Provenance
bought from Wyndham Payne, Cheltenham, 14th June 1945, for £1, 10s Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Prisoner-of-war