Strainer
date: label: date made
content: 1730-1745
notes: label: Description
content: Raised shallow circular bowl with bulging sides, rounded bottom, and everted rim with applied seamed molding, under which two, rounded-face, keyhole-shaped handles are attached at an angle on opposite sides. Bottom of bowl is pierced with small holes arranged into eleven concentric circles, some irregular, around one at center. Struck once on underside ends of both handles "JOHN / BURT" in raised slanted serif letters in a rounded-corner rectangle.
label: Description
content: Maker is John Burt (1692/3-1746) of Boston, MA; father of silversmiths Samuel (1724-1754), William (1726-1751) and Benjamin (1729-1805).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Arthur Michael
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383479
label: catalog number
content: 383479
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: strainer, punch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 11 3/8 in x 4 5/8 in; 4.445 cm x 28.8925 cm x 11.7475 cm