Object Number 1994.0111 C

Object Name

Stove plate (Jamb or five-plate stove)

Category

Metals

Credit Line/Donor

Anonymous gift

Creator (Role)

Marlboro Furnace (Maker)
1767-1795
Founded by Isaac Zane, Jr. in Stephens City, Frederick County, Virginia. The iron plantation employed more than 100 laborers and produced cast stove plates, cooking pots, dutch ovens, skillets, mortars and pestles, salt pans, tea kettles, and flat irons. See refernce in: Donald L. Fennimore, Iron at Winterthur (2004), p. 71.

Isaac Zane Jr. (Maker)
1743-1795

James Calhoun (Possible maker)

Place of Origin

Frederick, Virginia, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Origin Notes

Blast furnace and plantation in Marlboro (Marlborough), outside Winchester, Virginia. Site historically known as Steven's City on Cedar Creek.

Date

1768

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Front plate, lower half; "MARLBRO / FURNACE / 1768" cast

Subjects

Allegory; Marriage; Literary scene

Materials

Iron

Techniques

Puddle cast

Dimensions (inches)

24.874 (H) , 31 (L) , 20.626 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

63.18 (H) , 78.74 (L) , 52.39 (W)

Measurement Notes

Measurements of individual pieces are as follows (HxWxD): head plate 58.7 x 49.8 x 3 cm; side plates each 60.7 x 68.7 x 1 cm; horizontal plates each 76.5 (including tab) x 52 x 2 cm.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fennimore, Donald L. 2004 Iron at Winterthur.
• Published: pp. 70-71, cat. no. 25.
[Article] Bivins, John Franklin. 05//1985 Isaac Zane and the Products of Marlboro Furnace. Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts. 2 (1): 15-65.
• Similar stove: pp. 30-32, figs. 7, 8a
[Book] Mercer, Henry C. 1961 The Bible in Iron: Pictured Stoves and Stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans.
• Related objects: figs.132-135.