Pot stand

Status

Not on view

Date1750-1800

Maker Unknown

Geography Made - England

Medium/Techniquewrought iron

DimensionsOverall: 4 in. × 15 1/2 in. × 15 5/16 in. (10.16 cm × 39.37 cm × 38.89 cm)

Credit LineGift: Jess and Grace Pavey Fund, 2019

Object numberW-2871

DescriptionWrought-iron stand or trivet with circular flat band raised on three applied straight feet.
Published ReferencesMargaret Brown Klapthor and Howard Alexander Morrison. G. Washington: A Figure Upon the Stage. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982. p. 148.

Henry J. Kauffman. Early American Ironware: Cast and Wrought. Rutland Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1966. p. 64.

Alice Morse Earle, Home Life in Colonial Days. Stockbridge, Massachusetts: The Berkshire Traveller Press, 1974. pp. 59-60.

Markingson the underside, two Peter Family labels: "353" and "MT. VERNON"

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