Cup and ball
Prisoner-of-war
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone, Textile
Measurements
38 mm (Length)13 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339436
Summary
Miniature bone cup and ball game. Turned stem with one small 'cup' end and pointed end. String with ball attached to end. Prisoner-of-war work. In notebook no.5, page 45 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'Seventh Heaven no.124 Cup & Ball Two of bone one of wood'.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Prisoner-of-war
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 45