Historic New England

Medicine Chest

A wooden box covered in black leather with a hinged cover and red felt lining. Interior is compartmentalized into seventy six sections occupied by medical vials. Each vial is labeled and corked.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), leather, glass (material), cork (bark), felt (textile)

GUSN: 40696

Accession Number: 1940.715

Bone or ivory sticks, pierced; paper leaf with embossed ground and printed with one medallion with old man, woman and child; paper has white ground, printed with architectual elements and birds and vases in pink and silver; reverse is white paper embossed with flowers and scrolls.

Date: 1840-1849

Maker: unknown

Material: bone (material), embossing, painting (coating), paper (fiber product), printing (process)

GUSN: 40697

Accession Number: 1940.721

Coffeepot

Cylindrical pewter coffeepot with S-shaped handle with curled ends and thumbrest. Hinged lid with disk and ball knop. Two bands around base at half inch and at one inch from bottom. Six-sided curved spout.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: Probably Mory and Ober (Maker)

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin (metal)

GUSN: 40698

Accession Number: 1940.724

Box

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 40699

Accession Number: 1940.726

Box

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 40700

Accession Number: 1940.727AB

Pocket Watch

A Niagara Falls style wall pocket of black and red wool and edged in red fabric tape. Adorned with three dimensional, thick clear beadwork, with outlining and edging in clear beads, and fabric hanging loop at top.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), beads (pierced objects), beading (process), beadwork, cotton (fiber)

GUSN: 40703

Accession Number: 1940.730

Small Oval Box with Cover

Small oval paper box with cover. Top of cover covered with brown paper and small embossed bronze paper medallion with floral bouquet. Paper printed with bronze-colored fretwork pattern on white background covers sides of box.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 40704

Accession Number: 1940.731AB

Purse

Tan knit purse with silver-colored rings and long tassels.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 40705

Accession Number: 1940.733

Purse

Brown leather pleated purse with two thread handles and a green and white tassel on the bottom.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 40706

Accession Number: 1940.734

Washstand

Eastlake style washstand painted white w/ blue and white delft tile top; rectangular form w/ single drawer w/ original brasses; towel racks at both ends, divided cabinet below; on casters.

Date: 1870-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 40712

Accession Number: 1940.741

Stand

Scrolled cabriole legs, tured pillar and supports, round top wtih marquetry checkerboard

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: birch (wood), ebony (wood), inlays (decorations), walnut (wood)

GUSN: 40713

Accession Number: 1940.748

Candlestand

Candlestand. Maple. Circular top with turned pillar. Rests on cabriole legs with snake feet.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood)

GUSN: 44441

Accession Number: 1987.1439

Card Table

Card table. Mahogany, yellow pine, white pine, inlay. Serpentine front and sides; applied beading on rails; molded top. Rests on turned and reeded legs

Date: 1821

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), Norway spruce (wood), yellow pine (wood, general)

GUSN: 44442

Accession Number: 1987.1440

Side Chair

Serpentine pierced slat back; square legs and stretchers with beaded outer edges; incised stiles.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: cherry (wood), maple (wood), rush (material)

GUSN: 44443

Accession Number: 1987.1441.3

Side Chair

Side chair with serpentine crest, volute ears, and pierced splat. H-shaped stretcher. Round legs. Square seat with corduroy and leather upholstery.

Date: 1760-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 44444

Accession Number: 1987.1442.1

Chair

Side chair. Mahogany primary wood, maple secondary, leather, brass. Pierced "owl's eye" splat; yoke shaped crest with molded ears; leather seat outlined with decorative brass nails. Rests on front cabriole legs terminate in pad feet; chamfered rear legs. Legs have block and turned stretchers.

Date: 1765-1785

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), maple (wood)

GUSN: 44445

Accession Number: 1987.1443

Roundabout Chair

Roundabout chair. Maple, painted black, rush seat. Semicircular arm rail ending on outwardly turned handholds. Three ring-and-baluster turned larm supports. Plain tubular stiles. Rests on plain tubular legs below seat rail; front leg has one decorative ring-and-baluster turning just below the s...

Date: 1730-1740

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 44446

Accession Number: 1987.1444

Chair

Armchair. Ash, black paint, rush seat. Yoke-shaped crest and stiles; vasiform splat; arms on turned supports; rush seat. Ring-and-ball-turned front stretcher; swelled double rows of side stretchers; plain turned back stretcher. Rests on block-and-baluster-turned legs on Spanish feet.

Date: 1735-1770

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 44449

Accession Number: 1987.1447

Chair

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 44451

Accession Number: 1987.1450

Candlestand

Candlestand. Cherry, probably maple cleat, mahoganized. Spider legs, notched pillar base; urn-turned pillar; fixed octagonal top.

Date: ca. 1821

Maker: Attributed to Noyes, Samuel S., 1785-1832 (Maker)

Material: graining, cherry (wood), maple (wood)

GUSN: 44452

Accession Number: 1987.1451

Candlestand

Candlestand. Cherry. Top with serpentine edges atop slender turned pillar. Rests on narrow cabriole legs with snake feet.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 44453

Accession Number: 1987.1452

The Sudbury Marshes

Impressionistic landscape with pond at right and fields at left, cloudy sky. Signed "HTG."

Date: 1895-1905

Maker: Attributed to

Material: oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 44455

Accession Number: 1987.1454

Portrait of Edwin Buckingham

Framed lithograph portrait of Edwin Buckingham (1810-1833), rendered by Miss Lalanne of Pendleton's Lithography, Boston. Bust length view of young man facing left, wearing dark coat and waistcoat, a white shirt with high collar, and dark cravat.

Date: 1825-1830

Maker: Pendletons Lithography

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 44456

Accession Number: 1987.1455

Photograph

Two girls, one seated, the other standing, and a large black dog pose in front of a flower garden w/ cow pastures beyond.

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: albumen (egg white), gelatin silver prints, silver (metal)

GUSN: 44457

Accession Number: 1987.1456

Photograph

Two women, one sitting on a stone wall, the other standing under a row of trees along the edge of a road.

Date: 1865-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: albumen (egg white)

GUSN: 44458

Accession Number: 1987.1457

Mirror

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 44459

Accession Number: 1987.1458

Portrait of Edwin Buckingham Sears (1911-1987)

Bust length portrait of a young man. Sitter has dark brown hair and eyes. He is wearing a black graduation gown over a white collared shirt and striped tie. Oil paint on canvas, plain wood frame.

Date: 1935

Maker: Greene, Elmer Wesley, Jr., 1907-1964 (Artist)

Material: oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 44460

Accession Number: 1987.1459

Mary Elizabeth Cutting Buckingham (1851-1896)

Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Cutting Buckingham, a young woman seated in a roundabout chair reading a book; screen at back. Wife of Edwin Buckingham.

Date: 1889-1896

Maker: Stuart, Mabel (Artist)

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 44461

Accession Number: 1987.1460

Portrait of Eliza Willett Buckingham

Bust-length portrait of a young woman in blue dress and white lace shawl. Wife of Joseph Tinker Bukingham.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), panels (wood), panel paintings (painting by form)

GUSN: 44462

Accession Number: 1987.1461

Basket

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 44464

Accession Number: 1987.1464

Vase

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 44465

Accession Number: 1987.1465

Bowl

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 44466

Accession Number: 1987.1466

Pitcher

Stoneware pitcher. Bulbous body with oversized wide flaring mouth, circular foot, and strap handle. Decorated with applied, molded Bacchanalian figures and grapevine motif. Two-tone brown glaze.

Maker: Doulton Lambeth (Manufacturer)

Material: stoneware (pottery), molding (forming)

GUSN: 44467

Accession Number: 1987.1467

Vase

Stoneware vase with green glaze, cylindrical in shape.

Date: 1898-1919

Maker: (Maker)

Material: stoneware (pottery), glazing (coating)

GUSN: 44468

Accession Number: 1987.1468

Portrait of Marcia Drury

Bust-length portrait of a girl in brown patterned dress, heart stone on necklace. Ancestor of Edwin Buckingham Sears. Married to Charles Cutting.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 44470

Accession Number: 1987.1473

Mirror

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 44471

Accession Number: 1987.1474

Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a young man, possibly Joseph Huntington Buckingham, father of Edwin Buckingham, with reddish-brown hair and long sideburns.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 44473

Accession Number: 1987.1476

Plate

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 44476

Accession Number: 1927.1984

Pitcher

Earthenware pitcher with a yellow body. Single white band.

Date: 1870-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), yellowware

GUSN: 44477

Accession Number: 1931.1984

Scale

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 44478

Accession Number: 1933.1984

Dish

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 44480

Accession Number: 1927.1985

Teacup

Handleless w/ spiral lobed body; horizontal indented band around body at midpoint; scalloped edge; underglaze blue "rope" band around exterior edge; underglaze blue dot, center of bowl.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, underglazing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 44481

Accession Number: 1933.1985

Dish

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 44484

Accession Number: 1927.1986

Cup and saucer

Handleless footed cup w/ underglaze blue banding around foot and inside and outside rim; yellow flower (orchids?) w/ green and blue stamen in chain around body; one flower in center of bowl; all decoration on saucer in interior.

Date: 1785-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pearlware, underglazing, earthenware, glazing (coating), tin (metal)

GUSN: 44485

Accession Number: 1933.1986