"Double Decilitre" Measure
date: label: date made
content: 1833-1860
notes: label: Description
content: Lidless, bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with a spouted, sloped collar and molded base; incised around collar and above base. Handle stamped on face "DOUBLE / DECILITRE" sideways in incuse serif letters and on top with a small "E"; collar stamped with an imperial crown to left of handle and 19 raised serif letters. Flat bottom struck once with partial touchmark "[???]LLARDR[??] / [??]NGER[?]". One of an assembled set of eight metric measures, DL*67.0326-.0333.
label: Description
content: Maker is Villardry of Angers, France.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Pays de la Loire, Angers
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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.67.0329
label: catalog number
content: 67.0329
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
label: Object Name
content: measure, double deciliter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 4 in x 2 5/8 in; 12.7 cm x 10.16 cm x 6.6675 cm