Strainer
notes: label: Description
content: Raised shallow circular bowl with bulging sides, rounded bottom, and everted rim, under which a flat loop or omega-shape handle and a plain U-bent clip are attached on the same side. Front of bowl is engraved "MCS" in conjoined foliate script. Bottom of bowl is pierced with small holes arranged into five concentric circles around one at center. Underside of handle is struck "D[.]V[.]V[.]" in raised serif letters in a rectangle flanked by two pseudo-hallmarks of a shield-body spreadwing eagle in a diamond; a faint incised serif "S" is at each end next to eagle.
label: Description
content: Maker is Daniel Van Voorhis (1751-1824); working, New York, NY, circa 1772-1775; Philadelphia, PA, 1775-1782; Princeton, NJ, 1783-1784; New York, NY, 1784-1787; Bennington County, VT, 1787-1788; New York, NY, 1788-1803. Worked alone and in partnerships.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise S. Codwise
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.284765
label: catalog number
content: 284765
label: accession number
content: 57226
objectType: label: Object Name
content: strainer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 3 5/8 in; 3.175 cm x 13.97 cm x 9.2075 cm