Neo-classicism expressed itself in many variations in arts and crafts and in the design of everyday objects and utensils. The figure stove in the form of an antique female figure was originally used to heat a room in Schloss Pförten in Lower Lusatia. It was probably made around 1800 in the Klauersche Toreutica factory in Weimar. The large female figure in fired clay is very probably one of the Horae, Greek goddesses who in the classical period often symbolised the fleeting nature of time and the moment and thus also of human life.
If you look closely, you can still see remnants of a white colour version, which was probably originally intended to achieve a marble-like appearance.
The clay figure, which is exhibited here without its original iron firebox, was cast according to a template and could therefore be produced in several versions. The figure stove is thus exemplary for the increasing industrialisation of arts and crafts.