Parlor Stove
Peter Low

Details
Title
Parlor Stove
Artist/Maker
Peter Low (American, active 1830-1855), designer and maker
Date
ca. 1840
Medium
Cast iron
Dimensions
60 x 33 x 18 inches
Credit
Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection
Accession #
1986.187
On View
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.
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