Spinning wheel
Prisoner-of-war
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone, Thread
Measurements
140 x 92 x 39 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339438
Summary
Model - Two level bone model. On the top level, a spinning wheel with a lady in a poke bonnet working at a wheel, a second lady holding a utensil and a third lady witha baby in a cradle. Also a black harlequin. Lower level has three interconnected cog wheels with a handle, which turns the spinning wheel above by means of a thread., and cams which operate other movements above. All mounted on a base standing on a pair of wooden blocks. 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