"Centilitre" Measure
"Centilitre" Measure
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- Description
- Lidless, bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with a spouted, sloped collar and molded base; incised around collar and bottom of body. Stamped on front of body "CENTILITRE" in incuse serif letters below a small clasped hands in a circle and "199"; on face of handle with another small clasped hands; and along top of inside rim with an indiscernible number of small raised letters. Flat bottom struck once with touchmark "VC" in a lozenge or diamond shape. One of an assembled set of eight metric measures, DL*67.0326-.0333.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- measure
- date made
- after 1873
- place made
- France: Pays de la Loire, Angers
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 7/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 3.81 cm x 2.8575 cm
- ID Number
- DL.67.0333
- catalog number
- 67.0333
- 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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