"Decilitre" Measure
"Decilitre" Measure
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- Description
- 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.
- Maker is L. Dresco of Paris, France; working 1885-1906.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- measure
- date made
- ca 1885
- place made
- France: Île-de-France, Paris
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- 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
- ID Number
- DL.67.0314
- catalog number
- 67.0314
- accession number
- 250853
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Constance Dwan Wylie (Walker Gill Wylie Collection)
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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