Not currently on display at the V&A

Spinning Wheel

1779-1790 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
England (made)

Satinwood spinning wheel, carved and turned with painted decoration of fruits, shells, and flowers

Object details

Categories
Needlework Accessories
Woodwork
Household Objects
Object type
Spinning wheel
Parts
This object consists of 5 parts.
(Some alternative part names are also shown below)
  • Drawer
  • Part
  • Part
  • Spinning Wheel
  • Wheel
  • Spinning Wheel
Materials and techniques
Satinwood
Turning
Carving
Painting
Brief description
Spinning wheel, English, 1779-1790
Physical description
Satinwood spinning wheel, carved and turned with painted decoration of fruits, shells, and flowers
Dimensions
  • Height: 93cm
  • Approximately. includes projections of top section. width: 52cm
  • Depth: 39cm
Object measured without parts 3 and 4 attached. Checked on 24/8/2010 by LC.
Credit line
Given by Mr G Mosley
Object history
Formerly in the possession of Mary (b. 1753, d. 1826) wife of Sir Edward Every, Bart., of Egginton Hall, Derbyshire. Given by her descendants the Mosleys of Burnaston House, Derbyshire.
Bibliographic reference
W.A.Thorpe, ‘The Prosody of the Turner’, in ‘The Antique Collector’, December 1952, pp. 265-72, fig. 14
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
W.1:5-1938

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Record createdNovember 9, 2005
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O118372/spinning-wheel-unknown/
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