Foot Warmer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1780-1820
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 contains a square, single-piece, folded and riveted brazier or pan for holding heat source; tab handle riveted to front rim. Box top has three bands of perforations; sides feature two large punchwork concentric circles and six small punchwork hearts. Wire bail handle hooked through loops on frame top; wire loop pull o nhinged door. Doweled bridle joints. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: 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: Library of Congress
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.301547
label: catalog number
content: 301547
label: accession number
content: 61935
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: 5 7/8 in x 7 5/8 in x 9 1/8 in; 14.9225 cm x 19.3675 cm x 23.1775 cm