Warming pan
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Copper, Wood
Measurements
1210 mm (Length)280 mm (Diameter)
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Hill Top, Cumbria
NT 641812
Summary
Warming-pan on turned wooden handle; pan is a round copper vessel with a screw-in plug on top designed to hold hot water.
Provenance
HIL.R.33a,b description of Hill Top by Fairy Caravan characters, (in the hall place) 'Over the chair [right of the dresser] hangs a copper warming pan. It and the old steel candlesticks also belonged to Mistress Heelis's grandmother.' see L. Linder - History of the Writings, p.312.