Strainer

1829

Scroll

Samuel Kirk

Strainer

1829

Physical Qualities Silver, 1 3/8 × 3 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (3.5 × 8.9 × 8.9 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore

Object Number 1933.54.7

Silver strainer made by Samuel Kirk in 1830. This strainer has a plain shallow bowl pierced with uniformly-placed holes and a small supporting tongue on the outside. A very fine beaded edge is applied to the lip.

Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD; Robert Frank Skutch (1878-1966), 1929; Cohen family, Baltimore, MD

Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 140, ill., cat. no. 164

Inscribed: None

Markings: Stamped: "S.KIRK" and assay marks for 1830 (shield and castle) struck on the side