Trivet
date: label: date made
content: 1826 - 1846
notes: label: Description
content: Cast shield-shaped trivet with symmetrical openwork geometric design featuring a diamond near toe above a split-top trumpet shape with shallow S curve arms at its sides. Three peg legs; no handle. Heavily worn railing along two sides, closed at tip. Top face of endpiece struck incuse "W.BARTON" in roman letters.
label: Description
content: Attributed to William Barton (1762-1849) at Cairo, NY, after 1826 when he moved his foundry there from Chatham (now East Hampton), CT. Barton is remembered as a sleigh bell maker and established the bell manufacturing industry in East Hampton (which came to be known as "Belltown") in 1808; but he and his sons also produced other small bronze and brass items, including trivets.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Cairo
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Laundry
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0090.03
label: accession number
content: 1982.0090
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0090.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trivet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 6 1/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 3.175 cm x 15.5575 cm x 10.795 cm