Historic New England

Teacup

Gold band borders, cipher "MD" in feathered oval. Teacup: straight-sided chocolate (or coffee cup) with gold band around base and exterior rim; ear-shaped handle with gold pointed thumb hold; cipher exterior, opposite handle; saucer has gold band border, cipher center interior.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), porcelain, underglazing

GUSN: 3769

Accession Number: 1934.376.1

Saucer

Gold band borders, cipher "MD" in feathered oval. Teacup: straight-sided chocolate (or coffee cup) with gold band around base and exterior rim; ear-shaped handle with gold pointed thumb hold; cipher exterior, opposite handle; saucer has gold band border, cipher center interior.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), porcelain, underglazing

GUSN: 3770

Accession Number: 1934.376.7

Tea plate

White porcelain plate with gold band around rim and interior.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, gilding

GUSN: 3771

Accession Number: 1934.374A

Salt

Blue and white; oval eight-sided rectangle with butterfly, cell and drape border around base and network border with floral reserves around rim of top; right-oriented landscape scene of three-story building atop bridge with figures passing below, right; second bridge with figure carrying load, left ...

Date: 1770-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, underglazing

GUSN: 3772

Accession Number: 1926.56

Tea bowl

blue and white; handleless; footed; interior border abstract floral band with reserves, scallop and dot; sprig in center of bowl; exterior scene of bamboo stalk, flowers growing from ground; vase of flowers; pyramidal (tent?) structure.

Date: 1750

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, underglazing

GUSN: 3773

Accession Number: 1947.381.2

CANN, COFFEE

Blue and white; straight sided with ear-shaped handle with underglaze blue feather decoration on spine; underglaze blue flitches around handle terminals; interior border: network, spearhead and double dot; right-oriented landscape scene of three-story pavillion; one-story building surrounded by tree...

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, underglazing

GUSN: 3775

Accession Number: 1942.1272.1

CANN, COFFEE

Blue and white; straight sided with ear-shaped handle with underglaze blue feather decoration on spine; underglaze blue flitches around handle terminals; interior border: network, spearhead and double dot; right-oriented landscape scene of three-story pavillion; one-story building surrounded by tree...

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, underglazing

GUSN: 3776

Accession Number: 1942.1272.2

CANN, COFFEE

Blue and white; straight sided with ear-shaped handle with underglaze blue feather decoration on spine; underglaze blue flitches around handle terminals; interior border: network, spearhead and double dot; right-oriented landscape scene of three-story pavillion; one-story building surrounded by tree...

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, underglazing

GUSN: 3777

Accession Number: 1942.1272.3

Plate

Blue and white; alternating clusters of chrysanthemums and butterflies (3 of each) on outer border; inner border trellis band; central scene of gnarled tree in front of fence with flowers growing behind; ochre rim.

Date: 1750-1760

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, underglazing

GUSN: 3779

Accession Number: 1942.884

Saucer

Sacuer with traces of gold around rim. Cipher "MHWCF" in gold and red paint in the center.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, underglazing

GUSN: 3780

Accession Number: 1938.513

Plate

Circular with slightly dished rim; sepia scn. of trees & westrn. house

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding

GUSN: 3782

Accession Number: 1937.365.1

Punch bowl

Porcelain punch bowl with medallions of birds and flowers surrounded by flowers, scrolls, and butterflies on gold ground. This polychrome design is sometimes known as Rose Medallion.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3783

Accession Number: 1987.421.1

Waste bowl

Porcelain waste bowl with exterior medallions of birds and flowers surrounded by flowers, scrolls, and butterflies on gold ground. Bowl interior has round medallion in center of basin with bird and flower. This polychrome design is sometimes known as Rose Medallion.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3784

Accession Number: 1987.421.2

Cream pitcher

Porcelain cream pitcher with a loop handle and wide-mouthed spout. Exterior decorated with medallions of birds and flowers surrounded by flowers, scrolls, and butterflies. This polychrome design is sometimes known as Rose Medallion.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3785

Accession Number: 1987.421.3

Sugarbowl with lid

Porcelain sugar bowl with flared rim and lid with gilt berry knop. Exterior decorated with medallions of birds and flowers surrounded by flowers, fruit, scrolls, and butterflies on gold ground. This polychrome design is sometimes known as Rose Medallion.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3786

Accession Number: 1987.421.4AB

Teacup

Porcelain teacup with a scalloped rim and loop handle. Exterior decorated with medallions of birds and flowers surrounded by flowers, scrolls, and butterflies. This polychrome design is sometimes known as Rose Medallion.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, painting (coating), porcelain

GUSN: 3787

Accession Number: 1987.421.6

Saucer

Porcelain saucer with a scalloped edge with medallions of birds and flowers surrounded by flowers, scrolls, and butterflies on gold ground. This polychrome design is sometimes known as Rose Medallion.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3788

Accession Number: 1987.421.12

Plate

Porcelain footed plate with medallions of birds and flowers surrounded by flowers, scrolls, and butterflies on gold ground. This polychrome design is sometimes known as Rose Medallion.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3789

Accession Number: 1987.421.17

Dish

Porcelain footed serving dish with a flared edge with medallions of birds and flowers surrounded by flowers, scrolls, and butterflies on gold ground. This polychrome design is sometimes known as Rose Medallion.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, painting (coating), porcelain

GUSN: 3790

Accession Number: 1987.421.19

Luncheon Plate

Porcelain luncheon plate with medallions of birds and flowers surrounded by flowers, scrolls, and butterflies on gold ground. This polychrome design is sometimes known as Rose Medallion.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3791

Accession Number: 1987.421.20

Soup Plate

Porcelain soup plate with medallions of birds and flowers surrounded by flowers, scrolls, and butterflies on gold ground. This polychrome design is sometimes known as Rose Medallion.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, painting (coating), porcelain

GUSN: 3792

Accession Number: 1987.421.25

Luncheon Plate

Porcelain luncheon plate with medallions of birds and flowers surrounded by flowers, scrolls, and butterflies on gold ground. This polychrome design is sometimes known as Rose Medallion.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, painting (coating), porcelain

GUSN: 3793

Accession Number: 1987.421.24

Luncheon Plate

Porcelain enameled plate. Border of green tendrils, pink tree peonies on metallic gold grond. Scrolled medallions of birds, flowers and court scenes.This type of pattern is sometimes referred to as Rose Medallion.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, painting (coating), porcelain

GUSN: 3794

Accession Number: 1990.299.1

Bowl

Porcelain enameled bowl. Border on gold ground, green tendrils and pink tree peonies. Scrolled medallions of birds, flowers and court scenes.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3795

Accession Number: 1990.299.12

Saucer

Porcelain enameled saucer. Border on gold ground, green tendrils and pink tree peonies. Scrolled medallions of 1) birds and flowers, 2) court scenes.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, painting (coating), porcelain

GUSN: 3796

Accession Number: 1990.299.16

Cup and saucer

Porcelain enameled cup (.1) and saucer (.2). Gold ground border decorated with green tendrils and pink tree peonies. Scrolled medallions of 1) birds and flowers and 2) court scenes. Cup has upward pointed thumb rest.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3797

Accession Number: 1990.299.28.1-.2

Saucer

Porcelain enameled saucer. Gold ground border decorated with green tendrils and pink tree peonies. Scrolled medallions of 1) birds and flowers and 2) court scenes.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3798

Accession Number: 1990.299.38

Cream pitcher

Porcelain enameled pitcher with octagonal, swelled body and scalloped edge and gildt decorated handle.On gold ground: green tendrils and pink tree peonies and scrolled medallions of 1) birds and flowers, 2) court scenes.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3799

Accession Number: 1990.299.48

Sugarbowl with cover

Porcelain enameled sugar bowl. Sugarbowl has bulbous body with two gilt decorated double twisted handles and cover with gilt berry finial. On gold ground, green tendrils and pink tree peonies and scrolled medallions of 1) birds and flowers, 2) court scenes.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3800

Accession Number: 1990.299.47AB

Shallow Bowl

Shallow, enameled porcelain bowl. On gold ground, green tendrils and pink tree peonies and scrolled medallions of 1) birds and flowers, 2) court scenes. Saucer: deep sides; footed.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3801

Accession Number: 1990.299.50

Small Tray for Serving Dish

Small porcelain oval-shaped enameled tray. See matching covered dish 1990.299.52ab. On gold ground, green tendrils and pink tree peonies and scrolled medallions of 1) birds and flowers, 2) court scenes.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3802

Accession Number: 1990.299.51

Small Covered Dish

Small enameled porcelain dish (a) with cover (b). See matching tray 1990.299.51. Oval shape. Cover has gilt berry knop. On gold ground: green tendrils and pink tree peonies and scroll-edged medallions of 1) birds and flowers, 2) court scenes.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3803

Accession Number: 1990.299.52AB

Saltcellar

Lozenge-shaped porcelain saltcellar. Enameled border around rim of flowers and butterflies on metallic gold ground. Enameled C-scrolls encircle central scene of three seated figures.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, painting (coating), porcelain

GUSN: 3804

Accession Number: 1990.299.57

Bowl

Blue and white; deeply scalloped squarish edge, interior: network and scallop border; central decoration: mountains in background of house with tree and rocks in water, foreground; exterior: trellis border; two identical scenes of pavillion, right, bridge, foreground, hills and other buildings, dist...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, underglazing

GUSN: 3805

Accession Number: 1983.24

Vegetable dish

Blue and white; scalloped edge with network and scallop border; landscape scene (right-oriented) of pavillion and trees, bridge (no figures) foreground, two boats with fishermen, and two other clumps of buildings and trees, distant; bottom decorated with three sprigs of flowers. *Central scene bord...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, underglazing

GUSN: 3806

Accession Number: 1983.23

Platter

Porcelain rectangular platter. Enameled medallions with alternating scenes of 1) birds flowers and butterflies and 2) interacting figures. The medallions are surrounded by flowers, tendrals and butterflies on gold ground.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3807

Accession Number: 1990.299.11

Dish

On gold ground, green tendrils and pink tree peonies (as borders too); scrolled medallions of 1) birds and flowers, 2) people engaged in activities. Dish: square with slightly scalloped edges.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 3808

Accession Number: 1990.299.13

Walking tours of Boston's made land / Nancy S. Seasholes.

xiii, 212 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Seasholes, Nancy S.

GUSN: 146758

Call Number: Stacks F73.18.S43 2006

Photographs : archival care and management / by Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler & Diane Vogt-O'Connor ; with Helena Zinkham, Brett Carnell & Kit Peterson.

xvi, 529 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn. Vogt-O'Connor, Diane. Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn. Archives & manuscripts--administration of photographic collections.

GUSN: 146759

Call Number: Ref. TR465.R58 2006

Food in colonial and federal America

No description

Date: 25 cm.

GUSN: 146760

Windows on preservation / edited by John C. Leeke ; contributing authors, John C. Leeke, William McCarthy, Ann Lawless.

76 p. : ill., photos. ; 28 cm., This publication begins with a description of the American Precision Museum's window preservation project written by the museum's director, Ann Lawless, and includes a description of window making and the development of woodworking machinery through the 19th century b...

Date: c2005.

Creators: Leeke, John (John C.) McCarthy, William. Lawless, Ann. American Precision Museum.

GUSN: 146761

Call Number: HisPres. TH2261.W56 2006

Visions of belonging : New England art and the making of American identity / Julia B. Rosenbaum.

x, 203 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Rosenbaum, Julia B.

GUSN: 146762

Call Number: Stacks N8214.5.U6 R67 2006 c.1 (and 1 more)

From East to West : "Quaker farmer" Chinese export porcelain in America : an exhibition at Dumbarton House, October 25, 2005 through October 28, 2006 / Brian J. Lang.

p. cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Lang, Brian J. (Brian Joseph), 1969- Dumbarton House (Washington, D.C.)

GUSN: 146763

Call Number: Coll. NK4565.5.L36 2006

The T.W. Lawson : the fate of the world's only seven-masted schooner / Thomas Hall.

153, [4] p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Hall, Thomas (Thomas Stephen), 1962-

GUSN: 146764

Call Number: 85M Stacks G530.T218 H35 2006

Longfellow redux / Christoph Irmscher.

xvi, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Irmscher, Christoph.

GUSN: 146765

Call Number: Stacks PS2281 I76 2006

The Boston Italians : a story of pride, perseverance, and paesani, from the years of the great immigration to the present day / Stephen Puleo.

xv, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Puleo, Stephen.

GUSN: 146766

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.9.I8 P855 2007

American family treasures : decorative arts from the D.J. and Alice Shumway Nadeau collection / Ian M.G. Quimby.

ix, 193 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 30 cm.

Date: c2005.

Creators: Quimby, Ian M. G. Nadeau, D. J. Nadeau, Alice Shumway. National Heritage Museum (Lexington, Mass.)

GUSN: 146767

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.Q84 2005

Inspired by China: contemporary furnituremakers explore Chinese traditions / Nancy Berliner, Edward S. Cooke, Jr.

160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Berliner, Nancy. Cooke, Edward S. Peabody Essex Museum.

GUSN: 146768

Call Number: Coll. NK2668.B475 2006

The world of John Brewster Jr. : 1766-1854

64 p. 43 p. of plates ; 30 cm.

Date: c2006

Creators: Fenimore Art Museum

GUSN: 146769

Call Number: Stacks ND237.B8634 A4 2006 c.1 (and 1 more)

National Park Service Northeast Region's guidelines for the treatment of historic furnished interiors : in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's standards for the treatment of historic properties / Northeast Museum Services Center, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior with Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums; New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

xii, 115 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: United States. National Park Service. Northeast Museum Services Center. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation.

GUSN: 146770

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