Historic New England

Sampler

Small needlework alphabet sampler on ivory linen ground. Brown silk thread on tan fabric. Two complete alphabets with additional practice letters and numbers 1-6.

Date: 1793

Maker: Dean, Rachel, 1783-1845 (Embroiderer)

Material: linen (material), hand sewing, embroidery (visual works), silk (fiber)

GUSN: 10541

Accession Number: 1995.399

Wooden, white faced clock over reverse painting on glass; three brass urn shaped finials, side columns, hinged glass door, scrolling top and button, clock trimmed in gold and red with floral design in middle; painting is a country scene with a white house at right.

Date: 1825-1829

Maker: Neal, Elisha (Maker) Terry, Samuel (Clockmaker) Terry, Eli (Inventor)

GUSN: 10542

Accession Number: 1995.400

Miniature

No description

Date: ca. 1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 10543

Accession Number: 1995.401

Silhouette

Framed silhouette of Sally Pierce of Portland, ME. Silhouette is cut from green paper or fabric. The silhouette is enhanced by ink drawing surrounding it. Paper backing. Frame is made of wood. The part surrounding the picture is painted black. The rest of the frame is not painted. Brown ribbon edged...

Date: Late 18th to Early 19th C

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), wood (plant material), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 10544

Accession Number: 1995.402

Lamp

Brass and marble lamp with crystal drops. Etched glass top with pattern of flowers and grapes.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), etching (corroding), etching (printing process), glass (material), marble (rock)

GUSN: 10545

Accession Number: 1995.403.1

Lamp

Brass and marble lamp with crystal drops. Etched glass top with pattern of flowers and grapes.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), etching (corroding), etching (printing process), glass (material), marble (rock)

GUSN: 10546

Accession Number: 1995.403.2

Lamp

Brass and marble lamp with crystal drops. Etched glass top with pattern of flowers and grapes.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), etching (corroding), etching (printing process), glass (material), marble (rock)

GUSN: 10547

Accession Number: 1995.403.3

Watercolor Portrait of John Crane Bridge

Watercolor of John Crane Bridge. He stands on the green near the waterfront with the skyline of Boston in the distance. A black dog is iwth him. He wears a blacktop hat, a white shirt, white trousers and blue waistcoat with brass buttons. Shoes are black heeled leather. He holds a walking stick and ...

Date: ca. 1808

Maker: unknown

Material: watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 10548

Accession Number: 1995.404

Dinner plate

Pearlware dinner plate with molded and blue painted feather edge rim. Inner rim is hand-painted with blue chain of oval motifs.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons (Maker)

Material: earthenware, pearlware, glazing (coating), hand-painted, molding (forming)

GUSN: 10549

Accession Number: 1962.27.1

Theorem

Theorem painting of roses, rosebuds and leaves. Watercolor paint on cream colored velvet. Dark wood frame.

Date: ca. 1815

Maker: Bridge, Abigail Gray (Artist) Gramstorff Bros. Inc. (Framer)

Material: velvet (fabric weave), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 10550

Accession Number: 1995.405

Theorem

Theorem painting of a stag. Watercolor paint on cream velvet ground. Dark wood frame.

Date: ca. 1815

Maker: Bridge, Abigail Gray (Artist) Gramstorff Bros. Inc. (Framer)

Material: velvet (fabric weave), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 10551

Accession Number: 1995.406

Print

"The Art of Making Money Plenty in Every Man's Pockets" by Doctor Ben Franklin gives advice is words and pictographs. An image of Ben Franklin wearing a fur hat is above advice.

Date: 1817

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 10552

Accession Number: 1995.407

Tea Table

Oval tilt-top tea table.

Date: 1790 -1805

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 10553

Accession Number: 1995.408

Armchair

One of a pair of Empire "Duncan Phyfe" armchairs. Seats are needlepointed in burgundy with roses.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 10554

Accession Number: 1995.409.1

Armchair

One of a pair of Empire "Duncan Phyfe" armchairs. Seats are needlepointed in burgundy with roses.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 10555

Accession Number: 1995.409.2

Caster

Pearlware caster with thimble-shaped, perforated top. Body is decorated with blue, transfer-print "Willow" pattern. The top has a transfer-print pattern of white circles on varied blue background. Cork stopper. Blue vase-shaped spongey pattern around base and top (where holes are); blue willow pa...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glazing (coating), transfer printing, pearlware

GUSN: 10556

Accession Number: 1938.186

Dinner plate

Earthenware plate with scalloped rim and green transfer-print scene with red border. The transfer-print pattern, "Washington", depicts a statue of a seated man in Roman military dress in front of trees, fence and urn. In the scene's mid-ground, three men stand beside a river with domed and other bu...

Date: 1818-1846

Maker: Enoch Wood & Sons (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing

GUSN: 10557

Accession Number: 1943.230

Soup plate

Pearlware soup plate with green painted scalloped and feathered edge.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: glazing (coating), earthenware, hand-painted, molding (forming), pearlware

GUSN: 10558

Accession Number: 1918.1598

Mustard pot

Small, pearlware mustard pot with pulled handle. Pear-shaped body with incised line around mid-section. Incised line is hand-painted green. Missing lid.

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: glazing (coating), pearlware, hand-painted, incising

GUSN: 10559

Accession Number: 1929.1660

Plate

Earthenware plate with blue painted rim. Rim edge is not shell molded, rim face is molded with symmetrical feather pattern.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, molding (forming), hand-painted

GUSN: 10560

Accession Number: 1932.1112

Platter

Oval pearlware platter. Molded scallop edge painted green.

Date: 1800-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), hand-painted, molding (forming), pearlware

GUSN: 10562

Accession Number: 1933.6556

Footstool

Empire footstool with swans, needlepoint seat.

Date: ca. 1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 10563

Accession Number: 1995.410

Windsor Rocking Chair

Bow back windsor armchair rocker, "Philadelphia" style.

Date: 1800

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 10564

Accession Number: 1995.411

Valance

Green silk or rayon bed valance.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 10565

Accession Number: 1939.68O

Case Clock

A) Brass carriage clock inside B) red/brown leather carrying case, lined with red velvet. C) Key

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), leather, velvet (fabric weave)

GUSN: 10566

Accession Number: 1990.276A

Case Clock

A) Brass carriage clock inside B) red/brown leather carrying case, lined with red velvet. C) Key

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), leather, velvet (fabric weave)

GUSN: 10567

Accession Number: 1990.276B

Case Clock

A) Brass carriage clock inside B) red/brown leather carrying case, lined with red velvet. C) Key

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), leather, velvet (fabric weave)

GUSN: 10568

Accession Number: 1990.276C

Portrait of John Dean Norton

Portrait of a man, probably John Dean Norton, possibly by William Matthew Prior. Brown haired, blue eyed man with long sideburns, painted from the waist up, with black coat, white shirt with black neckerchief holding a quill pen in his right hand; black background with white highlight.

Date: 1800-1900

Maker: Possibly Prior, William Matthew, 1806-1873

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 10569

Accession Number: 1995.436

Cider Pitcher

Large porcelain pitcher (a) with lid(b); bulbous body; spout with pierced strainer; foo dog knop; ribbed, twisted handle with leaf and flower terminals; and hand-painted decoration. Leaf and flower handle terminals, foo dog knop and pitcher and lid rim painted metallic gold. Brown and gold hand-pain...

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, hand-painted, molding (forming), piercing

GUSN: 10571

Accession Number: 1995.412.1AB

Cup

Handleless porcelain cup with gilt interior rim. On cup exterior, hand-painted eagle holding shield with ancor, horn and banner with lettering "IECOE" and "WE HODE." Opposite eagle, a gilded gold sprig.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, hand-painted

GUSN: 10573

Accession Number: 1995.412.2

Cup

Handleless porcelain cup with gilt interior. rim. On cup exterior, hand-painted eagle holding shield with ancor, horn and banner with lettering "IECOE" and "WE HODE." Opposite eagle, a gilded gold sprig.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, hand-painted

GUSN: 10574

Accession Number: 1995.412.3

Cup

Handleless porcelain cup with gilt interior rim. On cup exterior, hand-painted eagle holding shield with ancor, horn and banner with lettering "IECOE" and "WE HODE." Gilded "B" in medallion of stars above eagle. Opposite eagle, a gilded gold sprig.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, hand-painted

GUSN: 10575

Accession Number: 1995.412.4

Saucer

Porcelain saucer with gilt rim and hand-painted eagle holding shield with ancor, horn and banner with lettering "IECOE" and "WE HODE."

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, hand-painted

GUSN: 10576

Accession Number: 1995.412.7

Saucer

Porcelain saucer with gilt rim and hand-painted eagle holding shield with ancor, horn and banner with lettering "IECOE" and "WE HODE."

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, hand-painted

GUSN: 10577

Accession Number: 1995.412.8

Plate

Small porcelain plate with gilt rim and hand-painted eagle holding shield with ancor, horn and banner with lettering "IECOE" and "WE HODE."

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, hand-painted

GUSN: 10579

Accession Number: 1995.412.5

Plate

Small porcelain plate with gilt rim and hand-painted eagle holding shield with ancor, horn and banner with lettering "IECOE" and "WE HODE."

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, hand-painted

GUSN: 10580

Accession Number: 1995.412.6

Handless Cup

Porcelain handless cup with gilded rims. Four gilded dots on exterior of cup.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, gilding

GUSN: 10581

Accession Number: 1995.413.1

Saucer

Porcelain saucers with gilt rims. Four gilded dots in the center of saucer .4.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, gilding

GUSN: 10582

Accession Number: 1995.413.4

Shorebird Decoy

Figure of a sandpiper carved in the round with split sail, carved bill, painted yellow and black eyes; stick-up bird drilled at the base, mounted on a modern rectangular wood base.

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 10585

Accession Number: 1991.867

Tray

Rectangular tole tray with deep beveled edge. Enamelled in black paint with tole painted decoration of flowers, leaves, fruit and nuts, in dull-gold and browns. Central area off by rectangular border. Dull-gold leaf band around edge. Finger hold on either end.

Date: ca. 1830

Maker: unknown

Material: metal

GUSN: 10586

Accession Number: 1995.414

Looking glass

Black and gold frame. Reverse-painting of a ship on top of mirror.

Date: 1825-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: mirrors, reverse painting on glass (image-making), glass (material)

GUSN: 10587

Accession Number: 1995.415

Cooking pot with lid

Footed iron pot with lid.

Date: ca. 1780

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 10588

Accession Number: 1995.416AB

Teapot

Pewter teapot with flower-shaped, scalloped top. The scalloped shape of lid is echoed by molded, mid-body tufted shape. C-shaped black-painted wooden handle with thumb rest. S-shaped spout. Hinged lid with black-painted wooden knop.

Date: 1850

Maker: James Dixon & Sons (Pewterer)

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin (metal), wood (plant material), painting (coating)

GUSN: 10590

Accession Number: 1995.417

Dinner Plate

Blue chinese motif on pale blue glazed ceramic dish. CEP plate, mountain, chrynsanthemum, palm tree

Date: ca. 1770

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 10591

Accession Number: 1995.418

Plate

Blue and white scene of pagodas in garden, in a river or lake.

Date: ca. 1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 10592

Accession Number: 1995.419

Tea cup

Small porcelain teacup iwth a floral band and central floral motif. Green, pink flowers, blue band. Small round handle.

Date: ca. 1810

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 10593

Accession Number: 1995.420

Teacup

Chinese export porcelain. Chrysanthemum, butterflies, ladybug motif. Gold leaf rim. Images decorated with goldl eaf. Flowers are pink and orange with green stems and leaves. Butterflies are pink and orange. Ladybugs have orange heads with black bodies.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 10594

Accession Number: 1995.421

Print

Lithograph of U.S. Gunboat "Niphon" sail / steam with American flag. Framed.

Date: Late 19th C

Maker: Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870 (Lithographer)

Material: lithography

GUSN: 10595

Accession Number: 1995.422

Chandelier

6" high miniature glass chandelier with six candle holders and six miniature candles

Date: ca. 1889

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 10596

Accession Number: 1995.424

Ice Skate

Wooden base with leather straps. Straps have metal buckle. Blade is inserted into the wood base and fastened by screws. Blade is thick metal.

Date: ca. 1860

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, wood (plant material), leather

GUSN: 10597

Accession Number: 1995.425A

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