Quart Measure
date: label: date made
content: 1793-1805
notes: label: Description
content: Bristol Low or West Country measure; quart size. Conical or ovoid body with molded lip, neck and foot; circular, everted rim. Tapered, S-scroll handle has spurred thumbrest and lower bud terminal; both terminals attached to body. Front of foot stamped "QUART" in incuse serif letters. Rim interior stamped with verification marks for Somerset County and for Watchet & Williton. Possible obliterated mark on rim exterior. Partial touchmark of M. Fothergill & Sons on bottom outside. From a set of four measures, DL*67.0125-.0128 (complete Fothergill mark on DL*67.0127).
label: Description
content: Maker is M. Fothergill & Sons, Bristol, England; working 1783-1835.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Bristol
setName: label: See more items in
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.67.0125
label: catalog number
content: 67.0125
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 18.415 cm x 17.145 cm x 11.43 cm