"Demi Litre" Measure
date: label: date made
content: 1807-1837
notes: label: Description
content: Bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with molded rim and base, pair of incised lines around midbody, and hooked rectangular thumb piece with flat extension burnt to the rimless domed lid; both ends of hinge pin impressed with grid pattern. Stamped on face of handle "DEMI / LITRE" sideways in two sizes of incuse serif letters; and around neck, "O", "K", and a decorative "O". Flat bottom with two concentric circles is struck once with touchmark "BONSAN AINE PLACE D. / POISSON SALLE N\o9 / A BORDEAUX". One of an assembled set of five metric measures, DL*67.0321-.0325.
label: Description
content: Maker is Bonson or Bouson of Bordeaux, France.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux
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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.67.0322
label: catalog number
content: 67.0322
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in; 18.0975 cm x 11.43 cm x 8.5725 cm