"Double Litre" Measure
date: label: date made
content: 1830-1848
notes: label: Description
content: Plain, lidless, bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with a spouted, sloped collar and molded base. Stamped on front of body "DOUBLE / LITRE" in incuse serif letters; on front of neck and face of handle with a small imperial crown; on top of inside rim with possibly an "H" in a small square; and on top of handle with five small and five large raised serif letters. Flat bottom struck once with banded oval touchmark of "CHAUVIN A RENNES." One of an assembled set of eight metric measures, DL*67.0326-.0333.
label: Description
content: Maker is Chauvin of Rennes, France; dated 1830-1848 based on imperial crown verification mark.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Brittany, Rennes
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Constance Dwan Wylie (Walker Gill Wylie Collection)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.67.0326
label: catalog number
content: 67.0326
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
label: Object Name
content: measure, double liter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in; 24.13 cm x 16.51 cm x 13.335 cm