Foot Warmer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1750 - 1800
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular, slat-top, wood-frame foot warmer or stove with opposed double-baluster supports that holds a perforated tin box with hinged door. Box top has three perforated bands; box sides feature three, large punchwork concentric circles and five, small punchwork hearts, those on the door positioned sideways. Wire bail handle hooked through loops on frame top; wire loop door pull. Pinned or doweled through-tenon joints. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: New England
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 R. A. Allen, U.S. Nat. Museum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.341200
label: catalog number
content: 341200
label: accession number
content: 103386
objectType: label: Object Name
content: warmer, foot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (handles material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 9 in x 7 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 22.86 cm x 19.05 cm