Samuel Kirk
Wine Funnel with Strainer
1823-1826
Scroll
Samuel Kirk
Wine Funnel with Strainer
1823-1826
Physical Qualities
Silver, (Funnel): 2 7/8 × 4 1/2 × 2 7/8 in. (7.3 × 11.4 × 7.3 cm.)
(Strainer): 3 × 3 × 1 1/4 in. (7.6 × 7.6 × 3.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.6
Silver funnels used to decant wine are an uncommon form in American silver. The small flat bottomed strainer fits into the wine funnel.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD by gift, 1929; Jacob Hall Pleasants (1873-1957), Baltimore, MD
AMW Reinstallation 2014
American Wing Rotations 2020
American Wing Rotations 2021
American Wing Rotations 2022
American Wing Rotations 2023
American Wing Rotations 2024
American Wing Rotations 2025
Pleasants, J. Hall and Sil, Howard. "Maryland Silversmiths, 1715-1830," Baltimore: Privately printed, 1930, p. 147, pl. XXXI, no. 4
Gallery of the Towle Silversmiths, "The Odd and the Elegant in Silver," Newburyport, MA, Oct. 1, 1956-Oct. 1957, Cat. 19, ill.
Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough, "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 136, ill., cat. no. 159
Markings: markings on sides of each piece "SK / (Assay marks for 1824-1827, no Head of Liberty) Maryland crest (?), C"
On View at the BMA
