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Description: | A dish-support from a chafing dish of Lewis??s Type F, cast in copper alloy. The bracket is flat and in the form of a human face, with grooved detail on both faces representing eyes and a cap (or hairline and collar), and the nose and mouth in profile. The bracket would have been attached to the main body of the vessel, but has broken just below the hinge. The swinging arm of the dish-support (78.9mm in length) was hinged, and could be swivelled over the top of the bracket, either to hold plates above the charcoal, or as a handle to avoid burns to the hands whilst moving the vessel. The end of the swinging arm is incomplete and has now broken off, but is flat and flares out into a fleur-de-lys shape for extra stability. Some of the original surface survives on both sides of the bracket. It has a shiny dark brown patina.
Chafing dishes would have been filled with charcoal, and plates or dishes of food would have been placed to top to keep warm. Lewis dates his Type F to c. 1575-1650. | Subjects: | Chafing dish Dish support | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Payne, Naomi - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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