Decorative brass warming pan with initials R.C, date of 1779 and location Norwich on it. Notation on back "courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Albertine, but unknown location presently."
From a note attached to the picture: " A brass warming pan with a very attractive cut out design and a handle with a rope twist. Important warming pans gravitate to some of the important antique dealers. The cutout design was attractive and functional. The openings provided a small draft to keep the coals hot as the pan was swept between the sheets to take off the chill of winter nights."
Description from "Early American Copper, Tin & Brass," page 40: The motif on this lid detail of an early nineteenth-century brass warming pan is not one of the rarest, but is pleasing and well executed.
Provenance
Photographs from the estate of Henry Kauffman. This photo appeared in Spinning Wheel, national Antiques Magazine, Hanover, Pennsylvania in the May-June issue, 1980
A signed copper warming pan, made by Richard Collier of Norwich, Conn., in 1779. Notice the use of holes to make a design in the lid. From the private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Albertine. Picture in the book "American Copper & Brass" page 86.
Three different American late 18th or early 19th century Brass warming pan. The eighteenth century warming pan in the center has an iron handle; the two early nineteenth century pans on either side have turned handles of wood. These handles are usually maple. Courtesy The Metropolitan Musem of Art.
Provenance
Photographs from the estate of Henry Kauffman. No reproduction of this photograph is permitted without written permission from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Application form furnished on request.
Note attached to picture: "Warming pan made of brass wih a domed pierced lid, and a turn-twisted handle of wood. Probably Dutch of the early eighteen century."
