Chafing dish
Chafing dishes were used for cooking and for keeping food warm. This dish was made in the potteries of South Somerset. It was discovered in many pieces in a rubbish pit in Exeter dating from 1670 to 1700.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/2438
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- potterySouth Somerset ware
- Common Name
- chafing dish
- Simple Name
- chafing dish
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
- Production Year Low
- 1670
- Production Year High
- 1700
