Figure
Category
Leatherwork
Date
c. 1860 - c. 1930
Materials
Leather, wood, metal, papier-mâché
Measurements
1120 mm (Height); 400 mm (Diameter)
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Lytes Cary Manor, Somerset
NT 254640.2
Caption
Reasons for objects are not always obvious – these smaller than lifesize leather figures could have been made for company or to make the room appear occupied!
Summary
One of a pair of rare Spanish female leather figures, coloured, and clothed in farthingales, stomacher-dress and head-dresses of stamped leather. Late 19th or early 20th century.