Cooking Pot

Object Title: Kitchen Equipment

Object Name: Cooking Pot

Description

Metal round cooking port with curved bottom, curved lip withmetal handle

Size (in mm)

330 mm W (top of lip) x 250 mm W (base), 140 mm (depth), 160 mm H (handle)

Parts

Pot with handle and soldered rings on either side linking handle to bowl

Collection

No (item in personal custody of owner)

Colour

Black, some rust and green discolouration on the underside of the pot

Materials

Iron

Maker

Unknown

Inscriptions

No

Method of manufacture

Not known, possibly handmade

Contents

Nil

Use

Used in Italy by Rina’s mother to cook family meals. It was suspended above the wood fire in their kitchen

History

Brought to Australia by Rina’s mother (Mistica Rosa Scapin) from Valli Del Pasubio, Province of Schio, Veneto Region, Italy to Wollongong NSW in 1929

Date

• Made:  Not known but prior to 1929
• Donated: No
• Recorded (for register): 18 January 2004

Associated information

Probably used a wooden spoon to mix the food, as the metal one would have become too hot. The pot would not have been used much in Australia as the house in Cringila had a fuel stove.

Item number

Cataloguer

Eva Castle

Current location

Personal collection, Rina Montgomery (nee Filippi), Bulli NSW