The
warming pan story, says James Hamilton in his fast-paced biography, Gainsborough: A Portrait, is almost certainly a myth.
For example, one jest tells of a husband who requires his wife to warm his bed every night before he lies down, and thus calls her his "
warming pan." Tired of satisfying his unreasonable demands, the wife one night defecates in his bed, and to her husband's horrified cry that he is "beshit," replies, "it is but a Coal dropt out of your
warming Pan" (11).
And he adds that the buyer should be aware of trends: `` Brassware is down, for example an antique
warming pan would fetch pounds 200 in 1970, now it would be around pounds 40.
The family frog has been sitting in a
warming pan for a long time.
Though the canard that he was not a royal prince at all and had been smuggled into Mary of Modena's bed in St James's Palace in a
warming pan had not been forgotten, he was a potential successor to Princess Anne, his aunt, and he might well turn Protestant to regain a throne.
The
warming pan of polished brass and copper with a long wooden handle hung on the wall in the dining room above the long table where all the guests took their meals.
It's like a cold copper
warming pan, I find myself thinking.
Temple points out that for 200 years after the "
warming pan incident" during the reign of James II in the late 17th century - when it was claimed that a male child was substituted for a baby girl after James's wife gave birth - the Home Secretary sat in on every queen's labour.
Turkeys were cooked approximately 10 hours before lunch, placed in
warming pans, and plated in individual servings.
As for the antiques shop, the trade had changed by the time the Tuffins moved, accelerated by TV programmes like Going For a Song, which ironically diminished the chances of finding bargains, certainly not
warming pans at PS1.10s or Staffordshire dogs for PS3 a pair.
It was the 376 tub built by William Cooper Hunneman, who was born in Boston in 1769 and was apprenticed to Paul Revere before establishing himself as a supplier of copper items, such as
warming pans and kettles.
Model ships, Catholic reliquaries, Chinese cabinets, antique clocks, Japanese Samurai armour, perambulators, lace bobbins, walking sticks, orreries, narwhal tusks, ornamental swords, musical instruments, dolls' houses, bicycles, measuring wheels, candle holders,
warming pans, telescopes, lanterns, truncheons, roasting spits .
Born in Malden, Massachusetts, Dexter made a fortune through unusual business deals that included buying up apparently worthless Continental currency (later redeemed), selling
warming pans in the West Indies, and trading in whalebone.
"We have famous for He exported
warming pans to the West Indies where they were sold as ladles; stray cats to Caribbean islands to combat rats; and he sold whalebone, that he had acquired by mistake, to corset manufacturers.
