Stove

Designer Johann August Nahl

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 533

The ceramics stove, the eighteenth-century equivalent of a radiator, was often designed to be part of a room's architecture and decoration. The body was made of a special clay composition that could withstand the heat of gases that circulated from a firebox located below it (as in this example), in the wall, or in an adjoining room.

Stove, Johann August Nahl (1710–1781/85), Tin-glazed earthenware, gilt, German

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