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Furnace
    • Setting:
      Room XVII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      second half 18th cent.
    • Materials:
      fireclay, iron
    • Dimensions:
      height 170 mm, max. diameter 200 mm
    • Inventory:
      3916
    • Furnace (Inv. 3916)

Fireclay vase with iron armatures used as a furnace. There are two small openings to control fusion and two lateral protuberances serving as handles. This type of furnace was used in the second half of the eighteenth century to melt metals at low temperature. The workmanship resembles that of the tripod-mounted furnace catalogued as inv. 3914