Litre Double Measure
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Bracket-handled, lidded and spouted, cylindrical metric measure with a seven-lobed convex shell thumb piece; molded lower rim and base. Flat-top cylinder lid with molded rim and concentric circles on top. Inset, curved spout; no cover. Five-knuckle hinge and stepped thumbrest. Stamped on face of handle "LITRE DOUBLE" sideways in incuse sans serif letters; to right of handle "R / F" in a triangle over a partial cross; and along lower rim to left of handle with thirteen Greek letters in circles. Underside of flat bottom struck once with arched rectangular touchmark "I.VAN DE STEELE".
label: Description
content: Maker is Joannes van de Casteele of Bruges, Belgium.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Belgium: Flanders, Bruges
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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.67.0351
label: catalog number
content: 67.0351
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 5/8 in x 8 3/8 in x 4 7/8 in; 26.9875 cm x 21.2725 cm x 12.3825 cm