Spoon, Sugar sifter, Silver plated, France, 19th century

Beautiful antique sugar sifter spoon, with a curved twisting handle. The bowl is round and with small holes, making it ideal to filter also whole leaf tea. The handle is decorated with art noveau motifs.
Sugar sifters are small ladle-shaped spoons which were used at the table to take sugar from sugar bowls or sugar baskets and sprinkle it over fruit, puddings, or cakes. During the 19th century, refined sugar became cheaper and thus readily available to a larger segment of the population, and silver companies began making more objects to suit.
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