among the silver at Abraham de Peyster's death in New York, 1728, though only two colonial New York examples are known to survive.

In a light form and heated over a spirit lamp, a chafing dish could also be used for cooking various dainty dishes at table—of fish, cream, eggs or cheese—for which silver chafing dishes with fine heat-insulating wooden handles were made in the late 19th century, when "chafing-dish suppers" became fashionable, even in households where a kitchen maid