Foot Warmer
date: label: date made
content: 1780 - 1830
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular, slat-top, wood-frame foot warmer or stove with spool-ended, opposed double-baluster supports that holds a piercework tin box with a wire-rimmed, hinged door. Contains a wire-rimmed, cylindrical brazier or pan for holding heat source; riveted tab handle. Box top has a central perforated band flanked by rows of openwork ovals and diamonds; box sides similarly pierced. Wire bail handle hooked through loops on frame top. Doweled bridle joints. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New England
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Unknown
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.325601
label: catalog number
content: 325601
objectType: label: Object Name
content: warmer, foot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (box, pan material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (box, pan material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 7/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 8 7/8 in; 14.9225 cm x 19.05 cm x 22.5425 cm