Brass Warming Pan. Malta Cross. Eighteenth Century.

Tank formed hammer and recovery tower. Lid with ventilation holes in the shape of crescents, flagella, diamonds, arrows, stoats. Engraved decoration and struck a Maltese cross primitive enrolled in a 6-pointed star. Platinum and socket wrought iron fitted to turned wood. The presence of the Maltese cross, to assign the origin of the warming pan in VILLEDIEU the STOVES. It was in this town in Normandy that the Knights Hospitaller of the Order of Malta, organized the copper work from the beginning of the fifteenth century. Diameter: 29 cm. Length: 98.5 cm. Fine condition. Small and discrete restorations with rolled edges. Free shipping by COLISSIMO for France.