"Decilitre" Measure
date: label: date made
content: 1861-1873
notes: label: Description
content: Lidless, bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with a spouted, cutaway collar and molded base. Stamped on face of handle "DECILITRE" sideways in raised serif letters overstruck with two letters in circles, and on top with an indiscernible number of small letters; on body with an imperial crown at front and eight large letters around neck; on collar with nine more letters; and along top of inside rim with more small letters. Flat bottom struck once with touchmark "TRIVELLI / A SAUMUR". One of an assembled set of eight metric measures, DL*67.0326-.0333.
label: Description
content: Attributed to Trivelli of Saumur, France.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Pays de la Loire, Saumur
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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.67.0330
label: catalog number
content: 67.0330
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 3 in x 2 1/4 in; 10.16 cm x 7.62 cm x 5.715 cm