"They're going to have to do the autopsy with a flour sifter," Vance said.

His materials reflect an aural curiosity about the objets trouves of the consumer world: plastic toys, mixing bowls, flour sifters, aerosol sprays, amplified squash rackets.

"If you look in a flour sifter while you sift," she said, "things are bouncing around and large things tend to come up to the top."

A flour sifter, iron fish fryer, two muffin tins, and a Dutch oven went into the Kitchen.

Their process uses mercury harvested from old mirrors, then shaken onto the back of the new glass "like from a flour sifter," Mr. Karpel said.

Her ancient flour sifter, probably a collectible by now, went to my daughter Jill, Mom's oldest granddaughter.

In 1844, Straub created the Straub Mill Company to create the mills, mill supplies, bolting machines, and reels (flour sifter).

China and glassware in the cabinets, as well as kitchen utensils like a flour sifter and food scale, make it appear as if the family stepped out for a few minutes.

In her own kitchen, a flour sifter is indispensable, instructions on flour bags to the contrary.

Against one is an object that resembles a flour sifter and is meant to seem as if it is sifting star dust.