Sugar sifter
Manufacturer
David Kinsey
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1860
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
InscribedStamped on back of handle: "D. Kinsey"; engraved on front of handle: "Amelia H. Smith/1864"
Credit LineBequest of Florence Smith
Object number0.1971.15
Not on view
DescriptionShaped handle with raised decorations of leafage and scrolls. Slight forward bend to handle which has a long drop decorated with leafage and ends in shell shaped bowl pierced for sifting sugar.Published ReferencesLouise C. Belden. _Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection_. Charlottesville: U. Press of VA for the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1980, p. 258 for marks.
18th century
