"Demi Litre" Measure
"Demi Litre" Measure
- Description
- Handleless, lidless cylindrical metric measure with heavy molded rim and base. Stamped on front of body "DEMI / LITRE" in incuse serif letters below a small fleur-de-lis in a circle on the outside and inside. Flat bottom struck once with small circular touchmark of a wheat sheaf surrounded by the raised serif letters "J N" and "A B". One of an assembled set of seven metric measures, DL*67.0303-.0309.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- measure
- place made
- France
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 8.255 cm
- ID Number
- DL.67.0305
- catalog number
- 67.0305
- accession number
- 250853
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Constance Dwan Wylie (Walker Gill Wylie Collection)
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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