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Skillet
Skillet or food-warmer, tin-plate, flask-shaped form with cylindrical body and hinged domed cover with flower shaped finial, underneath the cover a cylindrical tin-lined well, a screw stopper over an aperture on the shoulder of the skillet allows hot-water to be poured into its hollow interior; the exterior of the skillet covered with a reddish-black japan and decorated with gilt formal and floral borders, to the front of the body an oval reserve with a formal border containing the printed inscription "THE PATENT THERMOTERION / OR / NURSERY HEAT / RETAINER. / NO LIGHT REQUIRED."
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 50120
Creation/Production
Usk
Date: 19th century (late)
Measurements
Height
(cm): 27.8
diam
(cm): 16.8
Height
(in): 10
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
assembled
forming
Applied Art
japanned
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
tin-plate
Location
In store
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