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Trivet for supporting utensils while they are off the fire and for warming food by the fire.
Trivets are iron stands for supporting utensils while they are off the fire and for warming food by the fire. This trivet has a decorated plate and was designed to hang from the fire bar by the two hooks, rather than to stand on the hearth. Nothing is known of its origins.

1 hanging trivet: metal [iron]; good condition

MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'Trivets are iron stands which support utensils when they are off the fire, or serve to keep food hot in front of the fire. // Some trivets consists of three legs attached to a circular plate and were intended for standing on the hearth. Others, of which this is an example, were made to be hung from fire bars. These sometimes have legs so that they would stand on the hearth, but this particular example could only be hung on the grate. It consists of a decorated plate with two hooks attached for hanging it from the bar, and an oblong bar handle by which it could be removed from the hearth. // It is made of wrought iron and measures 14.5 inches in length. The plate is 8.5 inches in width.', Lavinia Smith Catalogue (D60/28) - 'A list of the contents of the East Hendred museum. July 5 1940 // Heating and Cooking // 194-197. Trivets for keeping things hot.'

Rippon, Miss Dorothy May Lyddon (Agent)