Foot Warmer
Foot Warmer
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- Description
- 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 cylindrical, riveted brazier or pan with folded edge for holding heat source; riveted tab handle. Box top with three bands of perforations; box sides feature a heart in a circle and five diamonds. Wire bail handle hooked through loops on frame top; wire loop pull on box. Doweled through-tenon joints. No marks.
- Used by Dr. Nathaniel Howard (1783-1852).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- warmer, foot
- date made
- 1825-1850
- place probably made
- United States: Massachusetts, Lowell
- place used
- United States: Massachusetts, Lowell
- Physical Description
- wood (frame material)
- iron (box; pan material)
- tin (box material)
- iron wire (handles material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 in x 8 7/8 in x 7 5/8 in; 15.24 cm x 22.5425 cm x 19.3675 cm
- ID Number
- DL.67.0582
- catalog number
- 67.0582
- accession number
- 248268
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Pope Meigs, Jr.
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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