Reflector Oven
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860-1890
notes: label: Description
content: Semicylindrical reflector oven with angled slots on its straight sides for the crank-handled, three-slot, roasting spit, and a hinged door with scrolled hasp handle on its curved back decorated with an embossed incurved-corner rectangle. Two, arched, molded strap handles are soft-soldered at both ends on the back above the door, while two arched strap feet are soft-soldered to the underside. Small spout at bottom of right side for draining drippings. Wire-rolled rims and folded seams; heavy-gauge wire along the front side edges is looped at top and reinforced with the spiraling ends of that along the bottom. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.257491.0097
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0097
label: accession number
content: 257491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oven, reflector
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (oven material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (spit material)
label: Measurements
content: oven: 11 15/16 in x 20 1/8 in x 18 3/4 in; 30.32125 cm x 51.1175 cm x 47.625 cm
label: Measurements
content: spit: 3/8 in x 24 5/8 in x 1 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 62.5475 cm x 4.7625 cm