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Foot Warmer
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About this work
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. Box top with three bands of perforations; box sides feature one large hole at center enclosed by a heart in a circle. Wire bail handle hooked through loops on frame top; wire loop pull on box. Doweled through-tenon joints. No marks.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineFoot Warmer. ca 1750-1800. National Museum of American History, Gift of Mrs. H. F. Olmstead. CC0.
