Foot Warmer
date: label: date made
content: 1800 - 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Square, wooden frame with turned, swelled-center column supports encloses a perforated tin box with hinged door containing a square, single-piece, cut and folded brazier or pan with tab handle for holding heat source. Frame constructed with doweled bridle joints at corners. Box top has three bands of piercings, while sides feature two large concentric punchwork circles and five small concentric punchwork diamonds. Wire bail handle hooked through loops on top of frame; wire loop pull tied to hinged door with string. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Heating
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.289456
label: catalog number
content: 289456
label: accession number
content: 59128
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 material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (handles material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 8 1/2 in x 8 in; 20.32 cm x 21.59 cm x 20.32 cm