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Chafing Dish
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About this work
A small candle would have been placed under this dish for keeping the contents warm at the table.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineChafing Dish, c. 1730. John Potwine (American, 1698–1792). Silver, wooden handle; with handle: 8.6 x 29.5 cm (3 3/8 x 11 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Hollis French, 1940.248
