Quart Measure
date: label: date made
content: 1700-1850
label: date made
content: ca 1800
notes: label: Description
content: Guernsey measure or flagon with double-acorn thumb piece; quart size. Wedge extension is burnt to the plain, pointed and pouted lid. Plain body with slightly flared rim and wide, single-incised, flared base. Strap handle with short terminal; cylindrical strut. Elaborate touchmark on outside of lid "N\s. L C.t" and "GUERNESEY" in shaped surrounds flanked by roses; "L.TV" stamped below in incuse serif letters.
label: Description
content: Maker is Nicolas Le Cheminant, working 1780-1830.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Guernsey
setName: label: See more items in
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.67.0173
label: catalog number
content: 67.0173
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 5/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 21.9075 cm x 12.065 cm x 10.795 cm