Historic New England

Saucer

Porcelain saucer in blue and white Canton pattern with central pagoda, river and mountain scene surrounded by a blue band with an X design.

Date: 18th century

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 172889

Accession Number: 2006.44.1881.2

Octagonal porcelain soup plate in Mandarin pattern of a central scene of three women around a table by a river, the rim features a band with a purple diaper design reserved with alternating small and large panels of orange flowers and vegetation, orange an.d gold bands around rim

Date: ca. 1740

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 172890

Accession Number: 2006.44.1857.1

Armorial dinner plate

Armorial porcelain dinner plate with painted polychrome decoration consisting of a central four lobed medallion with a scene of a building next to a body of water, rim features two panels with harbor scenes, a splayed eagle with a black bird on its chest, and a coat-of-arms with a shield with three ...

Date: ca. 1750

Maker: The Century House (Dealer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 172891

Accession Number: 2006.44.1856.1

Serving Spoons

Pair of silver serving spoons. Rounded handle with a pointed oval bowl.

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 172893

Accession Number: 1993.661

Serving Spoon

Silver serving spoon with a rounded handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 172894

Accession Number: 1993.661.1

British clocks and clockmakers, with 8 plates in colour and 24 illus. in black & white.

47, [1] p. illus. (part col.) 23cm.

Date: 1947.

Creators: Ullyett, Kenneth.

GUSN: 152274

Call Number: Little TS543.G7 U4

The Orion book of balloons. [Translated from Les ballons by Carter Mason].

108 p. illus. (part col.) 20 x 22 cm.

Date: [1961]

Creators: Dollfus, Charles.

GUSN: 152275

Call Number: Little TL616.D613

English candlesticks before 1600.

131 p. illus. 25 cm.

Date: [1954]

Creators: Thomas, William George Mackay.

GUSN: 152276

Call Number: Little NK9990.C2 T5

Period lighting fixtures, by Mr. & Mrs. G. Glen Gould.

ix p., 1 l., 274 p. col. front., illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1928.

Creators: Gould, G. Glen (George Glen) Gould, Florence Holden, Mrs., (Holden) joint author.

GUSN: 152277

Call Number: Little NK8360 G6

American antiques in words & pictures, a handbook by Alice Winchester ... Pictures by Liston M. Oak.

v, 7-95 p. illus. 20 cm.

Date: 1943.

Creators: Winchester, Alice.

GUSN: 152278

Call Number: Little NK806.W5

Shaker woodenware : a field guide / by June Sprigg and Jim Johnson ; photographs by Paul Rocheleau.

2 v. : ill. (some col.), map ; 23 cm.

Date: c1991-c1992.

Creators: Sprigg, June. Johnson, Jim, 1941- Rocheleau, Paul.

GUSN: 152279

Call Number: Little NK9703.7.S67 1990 vol.I (and 2 more)

Shaker design / June Sprigg.

228 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Sprigg, June. Whitney Museum of American Art. Corcoran Gallery of Art.

GUSN: 152280

Call Number: Little NK807.S6 1986

Old base metal spoons / with illustrations and marks by F.G. Hilton Price.

2, [3], 99 p. : ill., plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1908.

Creators: Price, F. G. Hilton (Frederick George Hilton), 1842-1909.

GUSN: 152281

Call Number: Little NK8450.P8

American pewterers and their marks.

3 p. ¾., 21 p. of illus. (facsims.), [1] p. 25 cm.

Date: [The Museum press] 1940.

Creators: Downs, Joseph. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 152282

Call Number: Little NK8412.N4

American clocks and clockmakers.

312 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: 1947.

Creators: Drepperd, Carl William, 1898-1956.

GUSN: 152283

Call Number: Little NK7492.D7

The New-York Historical Society's dictionary of artists in America, 1564-1860 / by George C. Groce and David H. Wallace.

xxvii, 759 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1957.

Creators: Groce, George C. (George Cuthbert), 1899- Wallace, David H. New-York Historical Society.

GUSN: 152284

Call Number: Ref. N6536.N4 (and 1 more)

Dictionary of American painters, sculptors & engravers.

433 p. ports.

Date: 1945.

Creators: Fielding, Mantle, 1865-1941.

GUSN: 152285

Call Number: Little N6536.F5 1945

American historical prints : early views of American cities, etc. from the Phelps Stokes and other collections / by I.N. Phelps Stokes and Daniel C. Haskell.

xxxiii, 235 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1933.

Creators: Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps), 1867-1944. Haskell, Daniel Carl, 1883- New York Public Library.

GUSN: 152286

Call Number: Little NE954.2.N39

Old prints and engravings / by Fred W. Burgess.

xii, 281 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Burgess, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1855-1945.

GUSN: 152287

Call Number: Little NE885.B8

Early American prints, by Carl W. Drepperd ...

xx, 220 p., 1 ¾., 221-232 p. front., plates, ports. 21 cm.

Date: [c1930]

Creators: Drepperd, Carl William, 1898-1956.

GUSN: 152288

Call Number: Little NE505.D7

American paintings & historical prints from the Middendorf collection: a catalogue of an exhibition.

110 p. illus. (part col.), ports. 27 cm.

Date: 1967]

Creators: Middendorf, John William, 1924- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Baltimore Museum of Art.

GUSN: 152289

Call Number: Little N5020.B275

Prints in and of America to 1850. Edited by John D. Morse.

xx, 355 p. illus., facsims., ports. 23 cm.

Date: [1970]

Creators: Morse, John D., 1906- ed. Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Winterthur Conference on Museum Operation and Connoisseurship, 16th, 1970.

GUSN: 152290

Call Number: Little NE505.W55 1970 (and 1 more)

More chronicles of a pioneer school, from 1792 to 1833, being added history on the Litchfield Female Academy kept by Miss Sarah Pierce and her nephew, John Pierce Brace, compiled by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel ...

xii p., 1 ¾., 376 p. front., plates, ports., map. 25 cm.

Date: 1927.

Creators: Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes, 1842-1939. Brace, John Pierce, 1793-1872.

GUSN: 152291

Call Number: Stacks LD7251.L7 V3 (and 1 more)

A register of artists, engravers, booksellers, bookbinders, printers & publishers in New York city, 1633-1820; compiled by George L. McKay.

78 p. ill.

Date: 1942.

Creators: McKay, George J., 1895-

GUSN: 152292

Call Number: Little Z475.M3

An early Connecticut engraver and his work, by Albert C. Bates ...

48 p. front., 42 pl. 23 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Bates, Albert Carlos, b. 1865.

GUSN: 152293

Call Number: Little NE539.B8 B2

April fool : folk art fakes and forgeries / the catalogue of an exhibition at Hirschl & Adler Folk ; presented by the Museum of American Folk Art ; Samuel Pennington, guest curator.

71 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1988.

Creators: Pennington, Samuel. Museum of American Folk Art. Hirschl & Adler Folk.

GUSN: 152294

Call Number: Little N8790.A675 1988 c.1 (and 1 more)

The history of silhouettes, by E. Nevill Jackson.

5 p. ¾., [3]-121, lxxvi p. illus., 9 pl. (part col., part mounted, incl. front.) 29 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Jackson, Emily, 1861-

GUSN: 152295

Call Number: Little NC910.J25

A treatise of japanning and varnishing, 1688, by John Stalker and George Parker. With an introduction by H. D. Molesworth.

xvi, 84 p. 24 plates 26 cm.

Date: 1960.

Creators: Stalker, John. Parker, George, of Oxford, joint author.

GUSN: 152296

Call Number: Little TP938.S78 1960a

Hat boxes and bandboxes at Shelburne Museum.

xiii, 195p. illus. (part col.) ports. 23cm.

Date: [1960]

Creators: Carlisle, Lilian Baker.

GUSN: 152297

Call Number: Little F59.S49 S47 no.4 (and 1 more)

John Singleton Copley, 1738-1815; [catalogue of exhibition held at] National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

142 p. illus. (part col.) port. 26 cm.

Date: 1965]

Creators: National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 152298

Call Number: Little ND237.C7 U5 (and 1 more)

The arts in early American history; an essay by Walter Muir Whitehill. A bibliography by Wendell D. Garrett and Jane N. Garrett.

xv, 170 p. 24 cm.

Date: [1965]

Creators: Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905- Garrett, Wendell D. A bibliography of the arts in early American history. Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)

GUSN: 152299

Call Number: Little Z5961.U5 W5 c.1 (and 1 more)

The Croscups' painted parlour / Victoria Baker.

95 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: 1990.

Creators: Baker, Victoria A., 1952- National Gallery of Canada.

GUSN: 152300

Call Number: Little ND2643.O88 B35 1990

Plain painters : making sense of American folk art / John Michael Vlach.

xvi, 206 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c1988.

Creators: Vlach, John Michael, 1948-

GUSN: 152301

Call Number: Little ND203.V57 1988 (and 1 more)

American pioneer arts & artists, by Carl W. Drepperd, with a foreword by Rockwell Kent.

3 p. ¾., xi-xiv p., 1 ¾., 172 p. col. front., illus. (incl. facsims.) 27 cm.

Date: 1942.

Creators: Drepperd, Carl William, 1898-1956.

GUSN: 152302

Call Number: Little N6507.D7

Winthrop Chandler and his contemporaries : an exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century folk paintings : September 14-November 4, 1989 / [compiled, written and designed by David A. Schorsch.]

56 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Schorsch, David A. David A. Schorsch, Inc.

GUSN: 152303

Call Number: Little ND207.5.P7 W79 1989

Pictorial folk art, New England to California.

172 p. illus. (part col.) 26 cm.

Date: [1949]

Creators: Ford, Alice, 1906-

GUSN: 152304

Call Number: Little ND205.F65 c.1 (and 1 more)

Early American rooms : a consideration of the changes in style between the arrival of the Mayflower and the Civil War in the regions originally settled by the English and the Dutch / with articles by Frederick Lewis Allen ... [et al.] ; Russell Hawes Kettell, editor.

xvii, 200 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 31 cm.

Date: 1937, c1936.

Creators: Kettell, Russell Hawes, ed.

GUSN: 152305

Call Number: Little NK2003.K4 1937

The pine furniture of early New England, by Russell Hawes Kettell.

xxiii, [618] p. illus. 32 1/2 cm.

Date: 1929.

Creators: Kettell, Russell Hawes.

GUSN: 152306

Call Number: Little NK2410.K4

A reprint of The country builder's assistant, The American builder's companion, The rudiments of architecture, The practical house carpenter, Practice of architecture, by Asher Benjamin; plates and text selected and ed. by Aymar Embury II ...

2 p. ¾., vii-x, 169 p. incl. plates, plans. 33 cm.

Date: 1917.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845. Embury, Aymar, 1880- ed.

GUSN: 152307

Call Number: Stacks NA2610.B45 c.1 (and 1 more)

Beyond New England thresholds, photographs and comment by Samuel Chamberlain.

95, [1] p. incl. front., illus. 32 cm.

Date: [c1937]

Creators: Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-

GUSN: 152308

Call Number: Little NA707.C37 (and 1 more)

American interior design : the traditions and development of domestic design from colonial times to the present / by Meyric R. Rogers.

309 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c1947.

Creators: Rogers, Meyric R. (Meyric Reynold), 1893-

GUSN: 152309

Call Number: Little NK2003.R6 1947 c.1 (and 1 more)

Historic wall-papers; from their inception to the introduction of machinery, by Nancy McClelland, with an introduction by Henri Clouzot. With 12 plates in colour, 245 illustrations in half-tone, and a chart of periods.

xvi, 458 p. incl. plates. col. front., col. plates, fold. tab. 29 cm.

Date: 1924.

Creators: McClelland, Nancy Vincent, 1876-

GUSN: 152310

Call Number: Little NK3400.M3

English cream-coloured earthenware.

xv, 107 p. illus., 100 plates (part col.) 26 cm.

Date: [1957]

Creators: Towner, Donald C.

GUSN: 152311

Call Number: Little NK4085.T6 1957

Old silver and old Sheffield plate : a history of the silversmith's art in Great Britain and Ireland, with reproductions in facsimile of about thirteen thousand marks : tables of date letters and other marks : American silversmiths and their marks : Paris marks and Paris date letters with a description of the methods of marking employed by the Paris guild of silversmiths : hallmarks, and date letters when used, of nearly all the countries of continental Europe, reproduced in facsimile : a history of old Sheffield plate and a decription of the method of its production, with the names and marks, in facsimile, of every known maker / by Howard Pitcher Okie.

420 p., leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1940, c1928.

Creators: Okie, Howard Pitcher.

GUSN: 152312

Call Number: Little NK7210.B74

The artist and the country house. Descriptive notes by Dorothy Stroud on the houses illustrated in the paintings.

108 p. 97 illus. 29 cm.

Date: [1949]

Creators: Steegman, John, 1899-1966.

GUSN: 152313

Call Number: Little ND1354.S8

Shades of our ancestors; American profiles and profilists, by Alice Van Leer Carrick ..

xviii, 205 p. col. front., plates, ports., facsims. 26 cm.

Date: 1928.

Creators: Carrick, Alice Van Leer, 1875-

GUSN: 152314

Call Number: Little NC910.C3

Southern furniture, 1640-1820 : a loan exhibition presented in Richmond at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, January 21-March 1, 1952 : under the sponsorship of the magazine Antiques, Colonial Williamsburg, the Virginia Museum.

64 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.

Date: c1952.

Creators: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

GUSN: 152315

Call Number: Little NK2414.A5

The pot lid book 1931 / by Harold George Clarke.

184 p. : ill.

Date: 1931.

Creators: Clarke, Harold George, 1884-

GUSN: 152316

Call Number: Little NK4087.S6 C6

Blue dash chargers and other early English tin enamel circular dishes, by Edward Andrews Downman.

xi, 175, [1] p. mounted col. front., illus., plates. 25 cm.

Date: 1919.

Creators: Downman, Edward Andrews

GUSN: 152317

Call Number: Little NK4290.D6

Balloons and ships / introduced by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith and Oliver Warner.

10 p. : ill., plates.

Date: 1965.

Creators: Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909- Warner, Oliver, 1903-

GUSN: 152318

Call Number: Little TL617.B3 G5

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