"Decilitre" Measure
date: label: date made
content: ca 1885
notes: label: Description
content: Lidless, bracket-handled cylindrical metric measure with heavy molded rim and base. Stamped on front of body "DECILITRE" in incuse serif letters; on outside of rim and face of handle with "1" next to clasped hands in an elongated hexagon; and along top and outside front of rim with 19 raised serif letters. Flat bottom struck once with a cadeceus between the raised serif letters "L D" in an oval. One of an assembled set of eight metric measures, DL*67.0310-.0317.
label: Description
content: Maker is L. Dresco of Paris, France; working 1885-1906.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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.67.0314
label: catalog number
content: 67.0314
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 7/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 8.89 cm x 7.3025 cm x 5.3975 cm