Historic New England

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral Trail pattern with Anglo-Japanese style and Persian style influences. Roller-printed in yellow, red, light blue and tan on black ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273727

Accession Number: 2001.281.198

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Persian style floral pattern roller-printed in red, yellow, two browns and metallic gold on mustard ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273728

Accession Number: 2001.281.199

Unused fragment of wallpaper with Aesthetic-style floral pattern with Persian influences. Red flowers and berries on meandering olive stems with metallic gold and black accents. Roller-printed in red, orange, light brown, metallic gold and black on light olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273729

Accession Number: 2001.281.200

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Large-scale, stylized palmette pattern exhibiting Persian stylistic influences. Central palmette framed by strapwork and scrolling foliate garlands. Roller-printed in metallic gold, gold, white, and dark gray on light gray ground. Paper embossed with pebble textured.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273730

Accession Number: 2001.281.201

Wallpaper

Two uncut borders. Neo-classical vases with flowers float above repeating festoons of white fabric and gold strapwork. The outer edges of the border is pre-cut around the pattern forming repeating arches. Roller-printed in metallic gold, white and two grays on semi-translucent white liquid mica g...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273731

Accession Number: 2001.281.202AB

wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Anglo-Japanese style scenic figure pattern. Multiple scenic views are framed by stylized foliage. Visible scenes include swans swimming near a fountain with a gazebo in the background, two figures rowing boats past a tent-like structure with an aquaduct in the background, ...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273732

Accession Number: 2001.281.203

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Art Nouveau style wallpaper with abstracted floral scrolling repeat pattern. Roller-printed in pale yellow and metallic gold on white ground. The paper is embossed with an all over pebble pattern.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273735

Accession Number: 2001.281.204

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Arts and Crafts style paper with large scale stylized medallion and foliate fleur-de-lis pattern. Roller-printed in red, three greens, tan, and gold on brown ground and finished with varnish.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273736

Accession Number: 2001.281.205

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment with Scenic Figure pattern. Scene of two figures rowing a small boat on a calm body of water past a large house. The scene is framed in a medallion and surrounded by Neo-Classical foliate and c-scrolls, bead and ribbon garlands, and rosettes. Roller-printed in olive, tan and re...

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273737

Accession Number: 2001.281.206

Wallpaper

Fragment of wallpaper with a Scenic Figure pattern. C-scrolls form medallions framing four grouped scenes, two large and two small. The upper left scene depicts an old man, leaning against a building, with a child on his lap. The upper right scene depicts goats drinking at a body of water. Lower ...

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273750

Accession Number: 2001.281.207

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment with a Scenic Figure pattern. Stick trellis with quatrefoil element frames three scenes depicting a European village on a river with mountains in the background. Roller-printed in white, two grays, three greens, yellow, blue, orange, tan, two browns and salmon on gray ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273751

Accession Number: 2001.281.208

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Scenic figure pattern with three repeating vignettes. Vignettes are of a mounted figure feeding his horses before a well, a group of men hunting water fowl, and a woman standing in water speaking to a man on horseback. Roller-printed in two greens, yellow, orange, blue, ...

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273756

Accession Number: 2001.281.209

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment with scenery figure pattern. Pastoral scene of farm animals and peasants under a blue sky with bluff and houses in the distance. The central figures are a boy in a bright blue coat, a steer, a goat, and a lamb. Roller-printed in white, black, orange, yellow, salmon, gray...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273758

Accession Number: 2001.281.210

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Asian style, themed Scenic Figure paper made in Germany for the French market. Pattern is block-printed in black on yellow ground and embossed. Scenes include a figure on horseback, figures with umbrellas, a pagoda with attached raised walkway, a bridge over lily pads and ...

Date: 1880-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 273759

Accession Number: 2001.281.211

Mug

Earthenware mug. Shaped base with loop handle and leaf terminals. Mochaware decoration with vareigated loops on white ground and solid bands above and below, in brown, light blue, and burnt orange.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, mocha ware

GUSN: 273760

Accession Number: 1970.385

Mug

Earthenware mug. Shaped base and loop handle with leaf terminals. Mochaware decoration with vareigated loops on blue ground, with solid bands above and below in blue and brick red.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, mocha ware

GUSN: 273761

Accession Number: 1970.388

Mug

Earthenware mug. Cylindrical with loop handle and pointed terminals. Mochaware decoration with marbelized pattern in blue, orange, and brown. Reeded bands at rim and base, overpainted with light green.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, mocha ware

GUSN: 273771

Accession Number: 1970.386

Wallpaper Sample Book

Wallpaper sample book "Birge Quick Wallcoverings: No. 1"

Date: 1955

Maker: Birge Co., Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273793

Accession Number: 1995.555

Wallpaper

Four panels of French scenic wallpaper. Handpainted on sheets of paper 39 1/4 inches wide by 105 inches hight. The painted pattern of each section is approximately 37 inches high, the remainder being sky. Written in ink on the reverse of one panel: "Environs de Paris / de 31 a 40." Two of the sec...

Date: 1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273794

Accession Number: 1995.556A-D

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral pattern with foliage in Anglo-Japanese color palette. Roller-printed in red, two greens, tan, brown, and liquid mica on yellow ground. "National Wall Paper Company" and "454" printed in selvedge.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: National Wall Paper Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273840

Accession Number: 2001.281.212

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. All over floral with maple leaves block-printed in light blue, mint green, and brown on light gray ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273854

Accession Number: 2001.281.213

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Long, narrow fragment of floral pattern paper. Block-printed with Irisé technique in pale yellow or white, light blue, and dark blue. Ground appears to be gray. Length indicates this may be a bandbox paper or border.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273858

Accession Number: 2001.281.214A-D

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments removed from the Harris Gray Otis House. Nursery paper. Engraved scenes of figures and animals in imitation of toile. Scenes are framed by scrolling acanthus leaf festoons and grape vine arbors.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273871

Accession Number: 2000.1660A-D

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Aesthetic style floral vine pattern. Bamboo shoots in receding colors form the background, vibrantly colored floral vines the foreground. Block-printed in tan, brown, white, red, three shades of pink and three shades of green on a highly polished gray ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273887

Accession Number: 2001.281.215

Sofa

Sofa with straight back and tubular crest rail with carved floret finials. Cylidrical arms contain drawers with exterior upholstery and wooden knob pulls. Feet carved with Ionic scrolls, rosettes, and acanthus leaves. Brass castors.

Date: 1826-1826

Maker: Hancock, William, 1794- (Furniture maker)

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 273902

Accession Number: 2013.24.1

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Bouquet and sprig pattern. Large bouquets of pink and white apple blossoms alternate with small sprigs of violet flowers. Block-printed in twenty-four colors: yellow, white, three olives, four greens, red, two pinks, three mauves, three browns, blue, aqua, four violets ...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273903

Accession Number: 2001.281.216

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment with sprig pattern. Sprigs of purple pansies alternate with branches with pink berries. Block printed in cream, four browns, three aqua greens, four pinks, yellow, mustard, five violets and three greens on gray ground. Light gray stripes, printed on top of the ground, ru...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273908

Accession Number: 2001.281.217

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral bouquet and stripe pattern. Large bouquets of violet pansies and lavender alternate with smaller bouquets of the same. Stripes of metallic gold pindots run behind the bouquets. Block-printed in pink, two violets, lavender, three greens, two blue-greens, yellow,...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273913

Accession Number: 2001.281.218

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Floral bouquet and sray pattern. Bouquets of pink and violet flowers and grasses alternate with small sprays of pink flowers and smaller sprays of violet flowers. Block-printed in metallic gold, tan, yellow, two browns, two grays, three pinks, olive, four greens, black ...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273920

Accession Number: 2001.281.219

Wallpaper

Two matching wallpaper fragments. Large scale floral pattern of naturalistic poppies on leafy stems. Roller-printed with thin color . Visible streaking of colors. Pattern colors very faded and/or significantly changed, making it difficult to discern original shades. Appears to be printed in thr...

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273927

Accession Number: 2001.281.220AB

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Large scale diaper with enclosed sprig pattern is made more complex by Greek key diagonals defining foreground diamonds and hatchmark diagonals defining background diamonds. The result is an overall argyle pattern. Roller-printed in orange, brown, gray, two blues, three...

Date: 1865-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273929

Accession Number: 2001.281.221

Plate

Circular plate with molded canted rim and a flat face; decorated with hand-painted floral sprays.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273001

Accession Number: 1991.1005.7

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Marblehead, Massachusetts. Stamped-gilt figure wallpaper in neo-grec style. Block-printed in gray and black with stamped gilt on gray ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 273002

Accession Number: 2001.281.98

Set of teacups and saucers

Set of five earthenware teacups and saucers with white glazed bodies. Molded basket-weave pattern decorated with hand-painted polychrome enamel floral sprays.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, molding (forming), enameling

GUSN: 273003

Accession Number: 1996.137

Teacup and Saucer

Teacup [a] has a deep bowl with a wide, molded band below the rim; the handle is shaped and the foot ring is molded. Saucer [b], circular form with a straight, molded, canting sides to a flat face.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273007

Accession Number: 1996.137.1ab

Teacup and Saucer

Teacup [a] has a deep bowl with a wide, molded band below the rim; the handle is shaped and the foot ring is molded. Saucer [b], circular form with a straight, molded, canting sides to a flat face.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273008

Accession Number: 1996.137.2ab

Teacup and Saucer

Teacup [a] has a deep bowl with a wide, molded band below the rim; the handle is shaped and the foot ring is molded. Saucer [b], circular form with a straight, molded, canting sides to a flat face.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273009

Accession Number: 1996.137.3ab

Teacup and Saucer

Teacup [a] has a deep bowl with a wide, molded band below the rim; the handle is shaped and the foot ring is molded. Saucer [b], circular form with a straight, molded, canting sides to a flat face.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273011

Accession Number: 1996.137.4ab

Teacup and Saucer

Teacup [a] has a deep bowl with a wide, molded band below the rim; the handle is shaped and the foot ring is molded. Saucer [b], circular form with a straight, molded, canting sides to a flat face.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273012

Accession Number: 1996.137.5ab

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Manchester-By-The-Sea, Massachusetts. Landscape scenic wallpaper depicting men hunting with dogs in wooded setting. Roller-printed in two greens, black, three browns, tan and five blues on gray ground.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273016

Accession Number: 2001.281.99

Side Chair

Side chair. Mahogany with birch rear seat rail maple front and side seat rails; yellow pine (probably pitch pine) corner blocks. Serpentine crest rail with central flat shell carving and carved molded ears. Pierced splat with owl's eye central design. Leather-upholstered seat lined with single r...

Date: 1770

Maker: Bright, George, 1726-1805

Material: mahogany (wood), birch (wood), maple (wood), yellow pine (wood, general)

GUSN: 273040

Accession Number: 1980.74.1

Side Chair

Chippendale side chair. Side chair. Mahogany with birch rear seat rail maple front and side seat rails; yellow pine (probably pitch pine) corner blocks. Serpentine crest rail with central flat shell carving and carved molded ears. Pierced splat with owl's eye central design. Leather-upholstered ...

Date: 1770

Maker: Bright, George, 1726-1805

Material: mahogany (wood), birch (wood), maple (wood), yellow pine (wood, general)

GUSN: 273041

Accession Number: 1980.74.2

Side Chair

Chippendale side chair with shell motif.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273042

Accession Number: 1980.75.1

Card Table

Chippendale card table.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 273043

Accession Number: 1980.76

Dropleaf Table

Dropleaf table. Mahogany with birch hinge rails; white pine and other secondary wood. Rectangular top with rectangular leaves. Top and leaves each composed of a single board. Molded skirt with cyma recta curve and ogee arch. Rests on cabriole legs with scrolled over-the-apron knee bracket and r...

Date: 1770

Maker: Bright, George, 1726-1805 (Furniture maker)

GUSN: 273044

Accession Number: 1980.78

Wallpaper

Ceiling paper fragment. Framing this corner fragment is a square geometric design in the corner flanked by the same landscape scene of a ruined structure with water and mountains on either side. The corner fragment features a floral design with blooms resembling hydrangea and palm leaves. Roller-...

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273064

Accession Number: 2001.281.100

Wallpaper

Ceiling paper fragment. This corner fragment features a landscape scene of a mill on a river. The scene is placed framed within a red diamond and is surrounded by a symmetrical block pattern outlined in metallic gold and oversized cattails. The paper is roller-printed in two reds, black, blue, wh...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 273066

Accession Number: 2001.281.101