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This trivet is designed to stand on the hearth, rather than hang from a fire bar. It dates from the eighteenth century and comes from Sussex.
Trivets are iron stands for supporting utensils while they are off the fire and for warming food by the fire. This trivet is designed to stand on the hearth, rather than hang from a fire bar, and sometimes it would have been pushed in among the embers and used for baking. This trivet dates from the eighteenth century and comes from Sussex.

1 trivet: metal (wrought iron)

MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'Trivets were used for standing pots on by the open fire. Sometimes a metal pot was placed on this type and it pushed among the embers and was used for baking. // This trivet which is made of wrought iron comes from Sussex. It is 3.25 inches high and measures 10 inches along each side. // See also 51/516L', Victoria & Albert Museum No. M251, 1917.

1700-01-01 - 1799-12-31

Eighteenth century