This is a new chrome plated tea strainer used over the cup to strain the tea leaves from your teapot getting into your teacup by a mesh screen.

The stainless steel tea strainer has a teapot shaped finial and is called the Darjeeling Tea Strainer and is made by Metropolitan Tea, Canada in China.

The Darjeeling tea strainer measures 5 inches long and the strainer part is 2.5 inches in diameter by 1.5 inches deep. The strainer is new, in an unopened package.