Stove
Albany and Troy, New York, were the principal centers for cast-iron manufacture in the mid-nineteenth century. This stove, utilitarian in function and material, was intended to occupy a fashionable entry hall or parlor and illustrates the thorough dissemination of the antique style into all American manufactures by the 1840s.
Artwork Details
- Title: Stove
- Maker: Francis S. Low
- Maker: John S. Leake
- Date: ca. 1844
- Geography: Made in Albany, New York, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Cast iron
- Dimensions: 57 1/2 x 33 3/4 x 18 1/2 in. (146.1 x 85.7 x 47 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Richard T. Button, 1969
- Object Number: 69.261
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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