"Double Decilitre" Measure
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with molded rim and base, a pair of incised lines below rim and above base, and a hooked rectangular thumb piece with flat extension burnt to the rimless domed lid; top corner of handle is stepped. Stamped around body "DOUBLE-DECILITRE" in incuse serif letters; on face of handle "I", "L", "D", B"; and on outside of rim "K". Underside of flat bottom with two concentric circles and an erased touchmark. One of an assembled set of five metric measures, DL*67.0321-.0325.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
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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.67.0323
label: catalog number
content: 67.0323
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 8.255 cm x 6.35 cm