Curfew
date: label: date made
content: 17th century
notes: label: Description
content: Brass curfew or couvre-feu with repoussé ornamentation. Semi-dome overall shape with riveted strap handle on top. Wide, riveted border along bottom with repoussé acorn design. Wire reinforcements along edges. Each quarter-round section of body has central floral blossom surrounded by wreath.
label: Description
content: Curfews such as this one provided a guard to allow fire embers to smolder through the night and to be easily revived the next morning.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United Kingdom: England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Preston R. Basset
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0183
label: catalog number
content: 62.0183
label: accession number
content: 238706
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Curfew
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)