Foot Warmer
date: label: date made
content: ca 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 wire-rimmed, hinged door. Contains a square, two-piece, folded and riveted brazier or pan for holding heat source; tab handle riveted to front rim. Box top has three bands of perforations; box sides feature two, large, concentric circles and six small hearts, the two at center interlocked and four in corners at a diagonal. Wire bail handle hooked through loops on frame top; wire loop pull on box. Doweled through-tenon 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: Gift of Mrs. G. Arthur Cooper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.59.1573
label: accession number
content: 223103
label: catalog number
content: 59.1573
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 5/8 in x 8 7/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 14.2875 cm x 22.5425 cm x 19.05 cm