Details

Title

Parlor Stove

Artist/Maker

Peter Low (American, active 1830-1855), designer and maker

Date

ca. 1840

Medium

Cast iron

Dimensions

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Credit

Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection

Accession #

1986.187

Location

Currently not on view

This mid-nineteenth-century cast iron parlor stove embraces aspects of Neoclassical styling with its lyre-shaped hot air chambers above the fire-box; the delicate, freestanding, open-work anthemion finials; and elaborate scrolled-leaf patterns seen in the casting. The stove is marked by Peter Low, a stove factory in Troy, New York, in operation between 1830 and 1849. This example, dated between 1840 and 1844, is entirely original.