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| Keywords: Roman - Wine Strainer - Walters 571814 - Three Quarter.jpg 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 mid 1st century BC late Republican silver with handles cm 4 49 14 24 8 2 accession number 57 1814 7840 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 Museum purchase 1949 Silver for the Gods Eight Hundred Years of Greek and Roman Silver The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo 1977-1978 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Strainers | ||||
