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Haster or ‘Dutch oven’, English, unknown maker, c.1820, tôle and brass, ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photograph: Hugh Kelly
Haster or ‘Dutch oven’, English, unknown maker, c.1820
Tôle and brass
Height: 68cm
Width: 33.5cm
Depth: 26.5cm
Width: 33.5cm
Depth: 26.5cm
Museum number: XF115
On display: Back Kitchen
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
Tôle1 with gilt lattice border around the top and sides; brass bail handles at each side; decorative brass lion’s head knob and catch; two shelves with narrow supports at the rear; curved legs with flat pad feet.
This small backless cupboard for placing against the fire to warm plates and food must have been in the kitchens although it does not seem to be in the Furniture and Fittings inventory unless it is the ‘Large Meat Screen, lined with tin, with two shelves’ described in the back kitchen (this seems unlikely). Its design is highly decorative for such a practical item with even its metal legs being debased versions of the fashionable cabriole leg.
1 Tin-plated sheet-iron which is first varnished and then ornamented by decorative painting
This small backless cupboard for placing against the fire to warm plates and food must have been in the kitchens although it does not seem to be in the Furniture and Fittings inventory unless it is the ‘Large Meat Screen, lined with tin, with two shelves’ described in the back kitchen (this seems unlikely). Its design is highly decorative for such a practical item with even its metal legs being debased versions of the fashionable cabriole leg.
1 Tin-plated sheet-iron which is first varnished and then ornamented by decorative painting
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