Litre Measure
date: label: date made
content: 1830-1835
notes: label: Description
content: Bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with molded rim and base, hooked rectangular thumb piece, and flat extension burnt to the rimless domed lid; five-knuckle hinge. Face of handle stamped "LITRE" sideways in incuse serif letters; wedge extension, front edge of lid, neck, and top of inside rim are covered with verification marks, including small raised serif letters, larger serif letters in circles, and fleurs-de-lis; top and bottom of front edge lid have larger circular verification stamps. Flat bottom struck once with arched rectangular touchmark of "BOURDILLON. / A ANGERS". One of an assembled set of five metric measures, DL*67.0321-.0325.
label: Description
content: Maker is Bourdillon, Angers, France.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Pays de la Loire, Angers
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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.67.0321
label: catalog number
content: 67.0321
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 5 3/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 22.225 cm x 13.6525 cm x 10.795 cm