Plate warmer
Category
Historic Services / Food & drink preparation
Date
Unknown
Materials
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Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638682
Summary
A copper three paraffin burner plate warmer with cover and two burners with covers (one burner and cover missing). The warmer (638682.1), of rectangular shape and raised on six turned ebonised feet (one missing, several substitutes) in the form of a pagoda with arched openings to each side and one to each end and a ceiling over surrounded by a parapet, in the ceiling three circular openings in a line centrally from end to end; the cover (638682.2) a sheet of copper fitted over the stand with a continuous pagoda border of lappets. Burners (638682.3 and 638682.4), with a cauldron reservoir and conical-shaped burner and wick holder which screws into the top of the reservoir; copper burner covers (638682.3.1 and 638682.4.1), slightly conical in form.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.