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A WELSH TURNED ASH AND BEECH SPINNING WHEEL
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A WELSH TURNED ASH AND BEECH SPINNING WHEEL

18TH CENTURY

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A WELSH TURNED ASH AND BEECH SPINNING WHEEL
18TH CENTURY
The wheel with baluster spokes mounted on a fiddle-shaped platform with three turned splayed legs
32½ x 35¼ in. (82.5 x 89.5 cm.)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品專文

The Chirk spinning-wheel, which probably belonged to Elizabeth Myddelton (d.1772), is listed in the 1795 inventory in the Chapel Room. Recently in the Cromwell Hall, it was described with a 'Neat Table and Spinning Wheel 0.15.0'. A related mid-eighteenth century spinning-wheel is displayed at Knole Park, Kent; and the contemporary art of spinning as a genteel pursuit was recorded in George Romney's celebrated portrait of 1787 of Emma Lady Hamilton (d.1815) as 'The Spinstress' (R. Edwards, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, 1964, p. 482, fig. 3).