Foot Warmer
date: label: date made
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular, slat-top, wood-frame foot warmer or stove with beaded edges and straight, rectangular supports that holds a perforated tin box with wire-rimmed, hinged door. Box top has three perforated bands; box sides feature four concentric circles in two punchwork diameters with a large circle at center and four, small, punchwork diamonds at sides. 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 York
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Mrs. J. M. Hartwell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.59.2321
label: catalog number
content: 59.2321
label: accession number
content: 24399
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 3/4 in x 9 1/2 in x 8 in; 17.145 cm x 24.13 cm x 20.32 cm