Tea Strainer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1835
notes: label: Description
content: Strainer made of flat wire woven in imitation of a shallow wicker basket, slightly oval in shape. Suspended from a single-loop hairpin spring with everted ends that is wound through a small twisted loop at center of the wire bail handle. No marks. Possibly parcel-gilt or gold washed originally. Accompanies four-piece tea service, DL*387944A-D.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Amy Wetmore May
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.387944E
label: catalog number
content: 387944E
label: accession number
content: 190331
objectType: label: Object Name
content: strainer, tea
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in; 1.905 cm x 6.35 cm x 6.6675 cm