Historic New England

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Geometric pattern of compartments with stylized foliage on flowers alternating with diamond shapes with flowers and pindots. Printed in blue and white on a grey ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178191

Accession Number: 2000.389

Wallpaper

Fragments. Ashlar pattern printed in brown and white on unground paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178192

Accession Number: 2000.289.1AB

Wallpaper

Used fragment. Meandering peony and leaf pattern. Prints in green, metallic gold, red, pink, brown on light green ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178193

Accession Number: 2000.351

Wallpaper

Fragment. Marble tile pattern on octagons with stags enclosed by wreaths and small square tiles. Printed in brown, tan, green, white and tan on a beige ground.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178195

Accession Number: 2000.365

Wallpaper

Fragments. Pieces of striped design. Appears to be white strapwork alternating with a green stripe on a white ground.

Date: 1875-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178196

Accession Number: 2000.377.2

Wallpaper

Fragments. Allover design of meandering raspberry brambles. Printed in maroon, yellow and black on an olive green ground.

Date: 1880-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178197

Accession Number: 2000.377.3

Wallpaper

Fragments. Two white pieces with undecipherable pattern.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178198

Accession Number: 2000.377.1

Wallpaper

Fragment. Repeating stylized flowers with scrolling foliage bordered between pink rows with metallic gold dashes. Printed in ochre, pink and metallic gold on a yellow field.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178199

Accession Number: 2000.377.4D

Wallpaper

Fragments. Allover circular tracery design with trefoils. Printed in pale yellow, white, metallic gold and pink liquid mica on unground paper.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178200

Accession Number: 2000.377.4A-C

Wallpaper

Fragments. Allover floral pattern with wheat and ivy. Printed in red on a yellow ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178201

Accession Number: 2000.378.2A-D

Wallpaper

Fragment. Striped pattern with undulating line, pindots and sprigs with bow knots. Printed in orange, red, green and white on unground paper.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178202

Accession Number: 2000.378.3

Wallpaper

Fragments. First layer of three. No visible pattern. Light blue ground.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178203

Accession Number: 2000.378.1AB

Wallpaper

Fragment. Floral border with roses. Printed in two greens, two pinks, reds on a grey ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178204

Accession Number: 2000.379.2B

Wallpaper

Fragments. Branches with dense foliage. Printed in brown, beige, tan, light tan and two greens on a light beige ground. Embossed.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178205

Accession Number: 2000.379.5

Wallpaper

Fragment. Undecipherable pattern. Probably the sidewall to the border 2000.379.1B and C. Printed in white, blue and black on a blue ground.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178206

Accession Number: 2000.379.1A

Wallpaper

Fragment. Grisaille coffers with recessed, octagonal, marble panels. Printed in three greys, gold and three browns on a white ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178207

Accession Number: 2000.381

Wallpaper

Fragment. Floral pattern with a daisy. Printed in green, yellow and orange.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178208

Accession Number: 2000.386.2

Wallpaper

Fragments. Allover floral pattern printed in blue on yellow ground.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178209

Accession Number: 2000.386.1A-F

Wallpaper

Fragment. Diaper pattern with stylized floral design within each losenge and framed by a Greek key meander pattern. Printed in white and green on an unground paper.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178210

Accession Number: 2000.391.2

Wallpaper

Fragment. Renaissance Revival pattern with C-scrolls, openwork and rectangular cartouches. Printed in green, red and white on unground paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178211

Accession Number: 2000.391.3

Wallpaper

Fragment. Renaissance Revival style. Vertical stripe alternating with cartouches embellishes with scrolling foliage, diaper pattern, open work and interlacing. Printed in two greys on a white ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178212

Accession Number: 2000.391.4

Wallpaper

Fragment. Stylized foliage with spiral tendrils and heart-shaped leaves. Orinted in maroon on ochre paper.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178213

Accession Number: 2000.391.1

Wallpaper

Used fragment from a fireboard. Meandering grape leaves and tendrils on vine. Prints in two browns on white ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178214

Accession Number: 2000.426

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover pine bough or willow-like foliage. Printed in green and gray on a white ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178215

Accession Number: 2000.601.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Joined rose festoons with ribbons. Printed in red, pink, white and two greens on brown ground.

Date: 1780-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178216

Accession Number: 2000.601.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Small scale floral sprays densely arranged and separated by rustic lattices. Printed in pink, red, ochre, green and beige on olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178217

Accession Number: 2000.603.2

Sheet Music, "Glee/ Drink to me only with thine eyes" and "The Peasant's Joy"

Single sheet, double-sided; "Glee" on one side and "The Peasant's Joy" on the other; pages numbered thirteen and fourteen; "Glee" consists of music, lyrics and three verses at bottom; "The Peasant's Joy" consists of only music.

Date: 1840-1870

Maker: Blake, G. E. (Publisher)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, printing (process)

GUSN: 191296

Accession Number: 2005.23.15

Sheet Music, "C.E. Roy's New and Complete Method for the Cornet a Pistons"

Title page to music instructional book; fancy lettering in several different fonts, surrounded by scrolls and dots.

Date: 1843

Maker: Roy, C. E. (Author) W. B. Bayley (Publisher) Apollo Hall (Vendor)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, printing (process)

GUSN: 191298

Accession Number: 2005.23.16

Vase

Porcelain vase with cylindrical body, straight neck, round flared rim and decorated with a polychrome Rose Medallion pattern featuring reserves of Asian men and women in interior and exterior scenes alternating with reserves of flowers, birds and butterflies.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191310

Accession Number: 2006.44.1801.2

Vase

Porcelain vase with cylindrical body, straight neck, round flared rim and decorated with a polychrome Rose Medallion pattern featuring reserves of Asian men and women in interior and exterior scenes alternating with reserves of flowers, birds and butterflies.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191314

Accession Number: 2006.44.1801.1

Shawl

Long black silk shawl with printed and embroidered flowers. The body of the shawl is a black silk crepe. There is a large inner rectangle that has a printed floral pattern. Over the entire surface there are black flowers and leaves embroidered on with silk threads. Within the printed rectangle there...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 191317

Accession Number: 2006.44.1370

Shawl

Cream colored wool shawl with colorful embroidered border and motifs. The shawl is rectangular with a narrow frayed fringe around all four sides. The cream wool is finely woven and has a sheer quality. There is heavy and colorful decorative cotton embroidery that forms an interior rectangle. The bor...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (hair), cotton (textile), embroidery (visual works)

GUSN: 191318

Accession Number: 2006.44.1351

Shawl

Long black and white silk shawl with geometric patterns. The shawl is narrow and rectangular. The pattern consists of alternating rectangles that have one of two designs inside them. One design has a daisy-like flower with stem and leaves on two sides and is inside of an oval. In the four corners of...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 191321

Accession Number: 2006.44.1371

Ginger jar

Covered Satsuma ginger jar with ovoid body, short straight neck, domed cover with rim that extends over the neck surmounted by a round gilt finial. Painted polychrome decoration of Asian men in a landscape scene with a tiger around the body and painted polychrome geometric and floral patterns aroun...

Date: 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191322

Accession Number: 2006.44.1800.1AB

Shawl

Long, wide ivory silk shawl with painted floral designs and metallic embroidery. The shawl is rectangular and at both short ends the hem was done by folding the edge over and sewing in a chain link pattern for the seam. All around the four edges there is a wide border of painted floral and leaf patt...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 191324

Accession Number: 2006.44.1372

Shawl

Square black cotton shawl with medium length fringe on all four sides. The fringe has two rows of decorative knotting which crisscrosses the threads into diamond patterns and the fringe then extends from the last row of knots. On one end there is a band composed of single olive green threads that ar...

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 191326

Accession Number: 2006.44.1352

Shawl

Narrow black silk shawl with embroidered flowers and long fringe. The majority of the shawl is a plain black silk, but at both ends there are four embroidered flowers. The outer most two flowers are the largest and are red flowers with greenery surrounded by smaller yellow and red flowers on one sid...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 191328

Accession Number: 2006.44.1373

Shawl

Long narrow gray silk shawl with white stripes on both ends and white silk fringe on both ends. The primary color is a silver gray and is slightly sheer. On both ends there is a wide white silk stripe and on either side of the stripe are three more bands that are made up of multiple narrow stripes. ...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (fiber)

GUSN: 191330

Accession Number: 2006.44.1353

Ginger jar

Covered Satsuma ginger jar with ovoid body, short straight neck, domed cover with rim that extends over the neck surmounted by a round gilt finial. Painted polychrome decoration of Asian men in a landscape scene with a tiger around the body and painted polychrome geometric and floral patterns aroun...

Date: 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 191331

Accession Number: 2006.44.1800.2AB

Shawl

Narrow black and ivory silk shawl. The shawl is primarily black but has a wide band of ivory across both ends. There are also three ivory squares toward both ends that run parallel to the ivory band. All four edges and around both the band and squares there is a chain-like black stitching that leave...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 191333

Accession Number: 2006.44.1374

Shawl

Square silver silk shawl with fringe on two sides. The silk is shiny and has a visible weave. The fringe has a decorative knotting that forms two rows of interconnected diamonds and the fringe extends from the bottom row of knots. The back of the shawl is still silver.

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (fiber)

GUSN: 191334

Accession Number: 2006.44.1354

Shawl

Long narrow rectangular black shawl. The shawl has five wool yarn tassels or pom-poms at both ends.

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (hair)

GUSN: 191336

Accession Number: 2006.44.1355

Shawl

Rectangular sheer beige silk crepe shawl with long fringe. The body of the shawl is plain and the seams around all four edges are decorative with interconnected tiny holes. The two short ends have long beige fringe that extends from three decorative rows of knots.

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile), crepe (textile)

GUSN: 191337

Accession Number: 2006.44.1375

Vase

Urn shaped earthenware vase with two c-shaped handles and a round stepped foot. Decorated on all surfaces with scrolling floral vines and two shields on each side featuring a band of characters and two crescent moons. Yellow, green and blue bands around the rim and the foot base.

Date: Late 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 191338

Accession Number: 2006.44.1945

Shawl

Long rectangular ivory lace shawl. The entire shawl has floral and leaf designs and all four edges are scalloped and have tiny loops of threads around the scallops. Where there is no design, the lace has a net-like appearance. The shawl also has a sheer to it in certain lights. The pattern is more s...

Maker: unknown

Material: lace (needlework)

GUSN: 191341

Accession Number: 2006.44.1356

Shawl

Long sheer cotton shawl with embroidery. The shawl is rectangular with small scallops along all four side edges. Each scallop has an embroidered edge and contains one embroidered dot in the middle of the scallop. Then there is a continuous row of dots along the inside edge of the scallops. Inside of...

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 191342

Accession Number: 2006.44.1376

Women's cape

Short women's cape made of long, dark brown fur. The cape has a wide collar that goes all the way around from the front to the back and folds down. There is a center opening with five metal loops on the left side and five hooks on the right. Just below the top hook and loop closure, there is a metal...

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: Lamson and Hubbard Company (Manufacturer)

Material: silk (fiber), fur

GUSN: 191345

Accession Number: 2006.44.1359

Vase

Ovoid shaped earthenware vase with two open handles that emerge from the body and join to the rim on either side of the narrow flared neck, six rectangular openings around rim. The body is glazed a dark blue with patches of green and brown and stylized yellow daffodils.

Date: 1900-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 191346

Accession Number: 2006.44.1944

Shawl

Long rectangular ivory lace shawl. The edges of the shawl are scalloped and then the scallops have tiny scallops around them. Inside of each larger scallop is a hand embroidered flower motif. The body of the shawl is a net material and contains five rows of identical hand embroidered floral motifs r...

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), lace (needlework)

GUSN: 191347

Accession Number: 2006.44.1377

Jacket, Bed

Short silk kimono-style bed jacket. The front neck and edges of the sleeves have a wide cream colored silk border and the rest of the bed jacket is made of an oatmeal colored silk. The front opening has no closures and it flares out as it comes down to the waist and comes down to a V in the front. T...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 191350

Accession Number: 2006.44.1378

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