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| DESCRIPTION | Antique English Georgian solid sterling silver orange strainer with a good crest engraving to one side.
Hallmarking was done before piercing and final finishing so some marks are partly obscured. Here we have
within the bowl leopard's head crowned, lion passant guardant 1739-56 series (clear), maker's mark (pierced), date letter probably 'p' or 'r'.
When is a lemon strainer an orange strainer? When it is used for oranges. Pre-Georgian orange juice was strained for use at table with dishes such as fish. These strainers were large. Smaller strainers such as this were employed for the popular drink of orange juice with claret. First half of the 18th century saw the popularity of lemon juice in punch so the orange strainer became a lemon strainer. From 1750 orange juice began to be more fashionable than lemon juice in your punch so the lemon strainer became an orange strainer once again until about 1800 when there was a huge improvement in the quality of imported wine and all punches fell out of fashion and these items were no longer made in any significant quantity. |
| SILVERSMITH | Walter Brind (probably, mark partly pierced) |
| DATE or HALLMARK | 1750 or 1752 |
| ASSAY OFFICE | London |
| WEIGHT in GRAMS | 75 |
| LENGTH | 6 ½", 164mm |
| SILVER STANDARD | ·925 sterling silver |
| CONDITION | generally excellent, no thin spots or bumps, repair to one handle's joints to the bowl |
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| SOLD |
| Price £268 |
| item number m8519 |
| Available Sterling Silver Lemon Strainers |
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