Litre 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 is stamped "L H" and "2" between concentric circles on top. Inset, curved spout; no cover. Five-knuckle hinge and stepped thumbrest. Erased "LITRE" stamp on face of handle. Lower rim to right and left of handle are struck with thirteen marks, including eight Greek letters in circles and "U / 3" in a rounded rectangle. Underside of flat bottom struck once with arched rectangular touchmark "I.VAN DE STEELE" and scratched with an "X".
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.67.0352
label: catalog number
content: 67.0352
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/8 in x 7 in x 3 5/8 in; 21.2725 cm x 17.78 cm x 9.2075 cm