"Litre" Measure
date: label: date made
content: 1897-1925
notes: label: Description
content: Lidless, bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with a spouted, sloped collar and molded base; incised around collar, neck and above base. Stamped on front of body "LITRE" in incuse serif letters; on front of neck with an elongated hexagon containing clasped hands and "199" next to a small "H"; on face of handle with another clasped hands mark; and on top of rim with four raised serif letters and one small square. Flat bottom struck once with a rounded rectangular touchmark of a crowned shield containing a key flanked by the letters "GG". One of an assembled set of eight metric measures, DL*67.0326-.0333.
label: Description
content: Maker is Georges Gras of Angers, France; working 1897-1925.
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.67.0327
label: catalog number
content: 67.0327
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 7/8 in x 5 7/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 20.0025 cm x 14.9225 cm x 11.1125 cm