Historic New England

Chest of Drawers

Paint decorated oak and pine four drawer chest with raised panel moldings and painted decoration in burgandy and red with black spots and trim. The two center slimmer drawers have indented V-shaped ends raised on small onion feet in front (probably replacement) and straight back legs, also knob pull...

Date: 1675-1700

Maker: unknown

Material: paneling, polychrome, pine (wood), oak (wood), painting (coating)

GUSN: 2742

Accession Number: 1991.1185

Fire Bucket

"U"-shaped bucket with black painted rim and base and a green body decorated with a black "O" enclosed by a bright green leafy vine under the yellow bannerette inscribed "H. Foster". Red stained interior.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 2743

Accession Number: 1991.1186

High Chest

A molded rectangular top on the case with two short drawers and three graduated long drawers raised on frame with heavy molding. A single long drawer scalloped apron and trumpet shaped turned front legs and straight back legs. The drawers have shaped and etched brass back plates and bail handles. I...

Date: 1725-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), poplar (wood)

GUSN: 2744

Accession Number: 1991.1187

Box

Paint decorated pine bible box, of rectangular form, with hinged molded lid and base on four bun feet; reddish -brown painted ground with stylized, linear flowering vine motif sprigging from foot center with elliptical blossoms in red, white and black. The interior is unpainted and the feet are old ...

Date: 1725-1730

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood), wire

GUSN: 2745

Accession Number: 1991.1188

Pencil Post Bed

Pencil post bed, with octagonal upper posts on stepped molded bases raised on square tapering legs hold arched canopy frame. The plain rectangular headboard has cut corners and rails drilled with holes for roping. Brass rosettes at the footposts above the original rails. The bed is painted red. The...

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood), painting (coating)

GUSN: 2746

Accession Number: 1991.1189

Low-Post Bed

Lowpost bed. Red painted maple. Four boldly turned posts with ball finials, shaped headboard with straight top, side rails pierced for ropes (no longer used) and lengthened with iron bolts at the posts (was once a child's bed). The has an original brick red color overall and is fitted with a moder...

Date: 1825-1830

Maker: Metcalf, Luther, 1756-1838 (Maker)

Material: iron (metal), maple (wood), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 2747

Accession Number: 1991.1190

Nightstand

The table has a square top over straight skirt with single drawer that has a beaded edge, and four splayed legs with a square upper leg and turned tapering lower legs ending in button feet. Painted red. Drawer has a single brass pull.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: birch (wood), printing (process)

GUSN: 2748

Accession Number: 1991.1191

Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a woman's head and shoulders facing right, against a pale gray background. She is wearing a black, square-neck dress with a sheer lace collar; she has a high thin collar with a neckband and a string of gold beads; and a close fitting cap with blue ribbons. She has blue eyes and her hair ...

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), oil pastels, pencils (drawing and writing equipment)

GUSN: 2749

Accession Number: 1991.1193

Wall Mirror

Red painted Queen Anne wall mirror with rectangular molded frame and a shaped crest. It is made from pine and painted red with black floral sprays and a black outline to the crest in Chinoiserie decoration. The mirror glass has been replaced- it is cloudy.

Date: 1725-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: mirrors, nailing, painting (coating), pine (wood), glass (material)

GUSN: 2750

Accession Number: 1991.1194

Six-board Chest

A rectangular spiral wire-hinged lid with a molded edge on the case with a molded base raised on bracket feet. It is painted red. The interior of the box is fitted with till and four open top boxes made from cigar boxes.

Date: 1940-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2751

Accession Number: 1991.1196

Punch Bowl

English deltware punch bowl, its straight sides have a slightly outflared rim and are on a straight foot. It has a white ground with hand-painted underglaze decoration in blue, green and iron red; the outside is decorated with Persian-like trefoils with flowers alternating with floral motifs above ...

Date: 1720-1740

Maker: unknown

Material: delftware, earthenware, painting (coating), throwing (pottery technique), underglazing

GUSN: 2752

Accession Number: 1991.1198

Portrait of Allethenia Fisk Ferrar

Rectangular formated portrait of a woman at waist length, facing right, with red drapes in the background. Light brown hair piled uptop her head with a blue dress with a round collar and lace banding (lace is in black circles with raised dots of white paint). She's also wearing a belt with a buckle,...

Date: 1834-1835

Maker: Attributed to Powers, Asahel L. (American painter, 1813-1843) (Artist)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2753

Accession Number: 1991.1199

Rug

Rectangular form patterned with scrolling fern fronds enclosing a beige field with a rose spray. Hooked in wool and cotton yarns in shades of: green, pink, brow, beige, red and purple. Bound in black (now green) cotton twill tape with a foundation fabric of burlap.

Date: 1875-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: burlap, cotton (textile), hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 2754

Accession Number: 1991.1200

Rug

A rectangular form patterned with leafy scrolls enclosing a shaped reserve with floral sprays and fern fronds. A worked on burlap foundation with wool fabric in shades of: brown, orange, purple, beige, green and red.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: burlap, hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 2755

Accession Number: 1991.1201

Rug

Square form patterned with octagonal field of varrigated stripes enclosed by triangles of stripes, squares and smaller triangles at corners with an outer border of three varrigated bands. It is worked in polychrome yarns on a burlap ground.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 2756

Accession Number: 1991.1202

Rug

Hooked rug, rectangular form. Cotton and wool ground affixed to a burlap back with a black tape border. Overall geometric pattern of 6" squares. Each square has a dark rose colored corner with concentric lines of beige, tan, and blue. The burlap backing was added at a later date.

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), cotton (textile), burlap, hooking

GUSN: 2757

Accession Number: 1991.1203

Rug

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 2758

Accession Number: 1991.1204

Blanket

Of a rectangular form, comprised of two panels of natural-colored linen woven, with dark blue and red wool in a twill plaid with large red windowpane checks enclosing crossbars of navy blue. Self fringe at one end and a sewn center seam.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 2759

Accession Number: 1991.1205

Blanket

Of rectangular form, comprised of two panels of twill woven wool in off-white and navy blue, patterned in a large windowpane check with beige crossbars at the borders. Self fringe on three sides.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 2760

Accession Number: 1991.1206

Blanket

Of rectangular form, woven in beige wool with pale green horizontal stripes at the top and bottom. The ends are overcast in beige wool.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 2761

Accession Number: 1991.1207

Blanket

Off-white blanket with hemmed bottom and top end. Towards top of blanket are three light blue stripes.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 2762

Accession Number: 1991.1208

Bird Cage

Miner's brown-painted wooden canary birdcage; cube form, with chamfered corner posts and bulbous finials; iron bars and handle; all on a molded platform base; suspended bird perch inside the cage with a wood and wax yellow canary perched on it.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: wrought iron (iron alloy), carving (processes), nailing, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2763

Accession Number: 1991.1209

Bird Cage

Paint decorated wooden birdcage, of tall cube form. The top has a central medallion and a turned finial with iron wire bars radiating out and down the sides, through three horizontal wooden bars and corner stiles. The base has a pull-out front cleaning compartment, and inside are corner shelves and ...

Date: 1815-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 2764

Accession Number: 1991.1210

Sconce

No description

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: stamping (forming), tin (metal), welding

GUSN: 2765

Accession Number: 1991.1211

Table Rug

Caucasian bagface carpet, now used as a chair-seat cover, of woven wool with a diamond-pattern and multi-strip border- in brown, tan, blue, deep rust and red. There are two salvage edges and two rough edges.

Date: 1850-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 2766

Accession Number: 1991.1213

Miniature Chest of drawers

A miniature chest, with an overhanging rectangular top over three graduated drawers and projecting base. The chest is painted black and decorated with peach colored circles and quarter roundsat corners of drawers across the top. Constructed with wood pegs.

Date: 1825-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2767

Accession Number: 1991.1215

Candle Box

Of rectangular form with a sliding cover. The sides are carved with a 6 pointed compass device within a circle, enclosed by incised cresents and a zig-zag border. One end is incised with a heart device within a zig-zag border, the other end has a 6 pointed star within a circle and zig-zag border. Th...

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), incising, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2768

Accession Number: 1991.1216AB

Nightstand

Stand with one drawer and a lower galleried shelf with a beaded edge. Square overhanging top with rounded corners over a straight skirt. Vasiform turned upper legs and slightly bulbous turned lower legs. Original red paint. The drawer has two stamped brass pulls.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: Shaker Village (Maker)

Material: birch (wood), maple (wood), painting (coating)

GUSN: 2769

Accession Number: 1991.1217

Table Rug

Of rectangular form, patterned with a spray of polychrome flowers and leaves within an oval reserve of medium blue field and shiped border. An outer-border of four braided roses in red and black. Polychrome wool yarns hooked and clipped in raised "Waldoboro style" on a linen foundation.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: braiding, clipping (trimming), hooking, linen (material), wool (textile)

GUSN: 2770

Accession Number: 1991.1218

Miniature Portrait of a Man

One of a pair of miniature portraits; canary yellow oval on a green background; oil on panel; portrait of Thomas Pollard; profile; seated in chair; 1/2 length.

Date: 1828

Maker: unknown

Material: panels (wood), oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 2771

Accession Number: 1991.1221.1

Box

Of rectangular form, with a domed hinged lid. Painted a deep orange-salmon and decorated with half circles (lunettes) in black at the edges of the lid sides, base and at the top of the box.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2772

Accession Number: 1991.1222

Ship Model

A model of a two-masted ship called a "Pinky" or Chebacco Boat, fully rigged with cloth sails and wooden masts. The hull is painted a dark green and it is mounted on a green painted stand. Schooner with 3 sails, a high sharp stern and bowsprit.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: American linden (wood), cotton (textile), painting (coating), string (fiber product)

GUSN: 2773

Accession Number: 1991.1223

Marriage Box

A rectangular cotter-pin-hinged lid with molded edges and cleats over a conforming box with a molded base raised on four turnip-shaped feet. It is painted red-brown and decorated with circles and "clock-like" deviced and birds flanking a heart under the initials "A.P." -all painted white.

Date: 1725-1730

Maker: Attributed to Lane, Samuel (Maker) Attributed to Moulton, John (Maker)

Material: maple (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2774

Accession Number: 1991.1224

Woodard-Winslow-Martindale Family Register

Family record with the births and deaths recorded inside a looped rose drape tied with two bowknots. There are two columns entwined with roses on either side; symbolic figurines appear at the bottom in between two tombs, and at the top where two figures tend sheep, and another- larger, off to the ri...

Date: 1837

Maker: Edson, Almira (Maker)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2775

Accession Number: 1991.1225

Fluid-Burning Lamp

Clear pressed-glass fluid-burning lamp. It has a waisted loop front with a plain dome, a baluster hexagonal stem on hollow square pedestal with a narrow cornice, concave molding at the bottom and a square plinth. It is now wired as an electric lamp with a parchment shade.

Date: 1845-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), parchment (animal material), pressing

GUSN: 2776

Accession Number: 1991.1226AB

Captain Oliver Lane House

View of a house and wharf built by Captain Oliver Lane in Annisquam, MA, in 1833. Center of the scenic picture is a large white house, with an ell and a white fence surrounding the house. In the foreground is a river with three boats and a wharf, other houses and figures of people looking out window...

Date: October 1859

Maker: Wiggin, Alfred J. (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2777

Accession Number: 1991.1227

Foot Warmer

No description

Date: 1700-1799

Maker: unknown

Material: incising, iron (metal), nailing, oak (wood), piercing, pine (wood), wrought

GUSN: 2778

Accession Number: 1991.1228

Portrait of Jacob Goold

Rectangular format, waist length portrait of Jacob Goold. Depicts an old man with night cap style hat and house coat. Holding a book, index finger on left hand points down. Facing left side of painting. Oil on panel.

Date: 1803

Maker: Greenleaf, Benjamin, 1769-1821 (Maker)

Material: boards (flat objects), oil painting (technique), oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 2779

Accession Number: 1991.1229

Candle Lantern

Tin and glass candle lantern; two large glass panels on the sides; other sides are tin with shaped windows, pierced round top and loop strap handle; painted green with tin leaf-like motifs attached to the shoulders.

Date: 1790-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), molding (forming), piercing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 2780

Accession Number: 1991.1230

Bowl with Lid

Round treen box; small, painted bright blue. Made from one piece of wood into squat rounded form with round lid that locks in under inner rim. Low rectangular knop.

Date: 1700-1799

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), turning (shaping process), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2380

Accession Number: 1991.401AB

Apothecary bottle

Green glass apothecary bottle. Large and straight sided with high shoulder and out-turned lip. Blown pontil glass. Label on front.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: Shakers (Maker)

Material: glassblowing, glass (material), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 2381

Accession Number: 1991.402

Cockrel Weathervane

Wooden cockerel weathervane. Fairly slender with highly stylized intertwining (carved separately) bold crest and wattles. Carved narrow eye. Large claw feet grip a rectangular base. Carved on both sides. Traces of old black, red, and yellow paint.

Date: 1876-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2382

Accession Number: 1991.403

Spice box

Green-painted tamarack spice box with sliding cover over six compartments. Cover with shaped handle containing a heart. Cover also decorated with chip carving. Carved encircled six-pointed star/flower.

Date: 1769

Maker: unknown

Material: chip carving, dovetail joints, painting (coating), western larch (wood)

GUSN: 2383

Accession Number: 1991.404

Basket

Round splint-woven basket with two bands of light blue paint on the outside (top and bottom).

Date: 1830-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), splints (lighting devices), wicker, weaving

GUSN: 2384

Accession Number: 1991.405

Charger

Large treen (wooden) charger with wide rim and deep well. Not unlike church communion plate or "tondino". Turned with incised bands on rim and center. Very light weight.

Date: 1700-1799

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), carving (processes), incising, turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 2385

Accession Number: 1991.406

Bowl

Treen handled bowl of dark figured wood. Bottom half turned on a lathe. Top half and handle carved. All form a single piece of wood. Deep round bowl. Light weight.

Date: 1680-1799

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), turning (shaping process), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2386

Accession Number: 1991.407