Description
This strainer for wine has a deep, pointed bowl perforated with tiny holes. It has two vertical handles (made separately), each shaped to fit the grip of the thumb and forefinger, an arrangement usually found on drinking cups.
Provenance
[Found near lake Trasimene, Northern Italy]; Arnold Ruesch, Zurich, prior to 1929 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Ruesch Collection Sale, Lucerne, 1936 [mode of acquisition unknown]; William Randolph Hearst, San Simeon, 1936, by purchase; Joseph Brummer, New York, 1941, by purchase; Brummer Collection Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1949; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.