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Chafing Dish

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1850-1870

GUSN

GUSN-58774

Description

Pewter chafing dish with a spherical well with a flared pierced rim, three cast legs, and an applied handle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

chafing dishes
pewter (tin alloy)
Warmer, Food
Dish, Chafing
Dish, Chafing

Associated Building

Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3 3/4 x 11 1/8 x 6 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann

Accession Number

1942.4015

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