Historic New England

Children's Mug

Creamware children's mug. Black transfer-printed design of three children playing games, including flying a kite, playing hoop and stick and throwing a small ball. Copper-colored lusterware accents the upper lip of the mug. and the center of the handle.

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, creamware, transfer printing, lusterware

GUSN: 43937

Accession Number: 1970.1310.756

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Red transfer printed image of a girl standing outdoors with her arms around a sheep at her side. A large house is in the distance to the right, and a small cottage to the left.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43938

Accession Number: 1970.1310.757

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Canary yellow background with red transferware designs. Floral and ribbon circular wreath surrounds a large harp with the inscription, "A HARP/ FOR ELISABETH".

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43939

Accession Number: 1970.1310.758

Children's Mug

Porcelain children's mug. Black transfer printed design with a chicken, a baby chick hatching from an egg, and a farm house in the background. Black line painted on the rim and on the handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, transfer printing

GUSN: 43940

Accession Number: 1970.1310.759

Children's Mug

Eathernware children's mug. Cylindrical with loop handle and leaf terminals. Painted with dark red flowers, large pink and luster leaves, and small green leaves. Luster lines around base, rim, and down handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, lusterware

GUSN: 43941

Accession Number: 1970.1310.760

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Round-rimmed base with loop handle. Lightly mottled tan glaze, painted with blue and dark red flowers, green leaves, and gray stems. Dark gray line around rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, hand-painted

GUSN: 43943

Accession Number: 1970.1310.762

Children's Mug

Black and white transfer-printed design of pastoral scene with a white octagon overlaid with inscription.

Date: ca. 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43944

Accession Number: 1970.1310.763

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Brown transfer-printed design of a mother, father and child seated on the grass crouched over a bird's nest. Over-painting in green, blue and red.

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43945

Accession Number: 1970.1310.764

Children's Mug

Children's mug with blue and white transfer-printed design, cornacopia of floral arbor arching over description. On ground, the Holy Bible and a scroll titled "Proverbs" emitting light.

Date: ca. 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43946

Accession Number: 1970.1310.765

Children's Mug

Creamware children's mug. Maroon transfer-printed design of a mother with small child on lap sitting at a writing desk. Hand-painted maroon line encircles mug at upper edge.

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43948

Accession Number: 1970.1310.767

Mug

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 43949

Accession Number: 1970.1310.768

Mug

Earthenware mug (mochaware). Cylindrical with loop handle and leaf terminals. Dark yellow body with incised geometric bands. Plain blue bands at base and rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, mocha ware

GUSN: 43950

Accession Number: 1970.1310.769

Mug

Earthenware mug. Cylindrical with spurred, ear-shaped handle. Monogram initials (perhaps EJ) on shield with foliate decoration, in green, black, and gold. Narrow decorative borders in blue and gold at base and rim. Luster band around rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, lusterware

GUSN: 43951

Accession Number: 1970.1310.770

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Black transfer printed image of woman in classical flowing dress, seated on a divan, with a small boy kneeling on a box by her side. Hand painted black lines around rim, below rim inside body, and on handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43952

Accession Number: 1970.1310.771

Children's Mug

Creamware children's mug. Red transfer-printed design of a man on bended knee with arm around a young boy. The man is gesturing to the garden surrounding him. Over-painting of green, blue, yellow, and red accent the scene. Pink luster encircles the upper lip of mug and down the center of handle.

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing, lusterware, creamware

GUSN: 43953

Accession Number: 1970.1310.772

Mug

Earthenware mug. Cylindrical with loop handle and leaf terminals. Painted with large-scale floral pattern in dark red, blue, green, and purple, with accents in pink luster. Pink luster bands around rim and base. Green foliate design on handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, lusterware

GUSN: 43954

Accession Number: 1970.1310.773

Children's mug

Earthenware children's mug. Shaped base, molded rim, and flat-topped, ear-shaped handle. Black transfer printed illustration of Isaac Van Amburgh, famous 19th century American animal trainer. He is depicted with a number of animals, mostly large felines. Over painted with green and yellow. Deco...

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43955

Accession Number: 1970.1310.774

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Red transfer printed scenes with a girl playing with a cat on one side, and a girl feeding several chickens on the other side.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43956

Accession Number: 1970.1310.775

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Round-rimmed base with loop handle. Painted with fern-like flowers in dark red and green. Black line around rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, hand-painted

GUSN: 43957

Accession Number: 1970.1310.776

Mug

Earthenware mug. Slightly concave, round-rimmed base, beaded rim, and loop handle with leaf terminals. Upper zone of mug has blue band with white applied decorations (two floral, one urn). Lower zone has reeded band.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, applied decoration

GUSN: 43958

Accession Number: 1970.1310.777

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Black transfer-printed design of two young childrne's playing with a small sailboat on a pond; trees and brush in the background. Pale blue background.

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43959

Accession Number: 1970.1310.778

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Light grayish-green glazed band around body, with two black transfer printed scenes. On one side, a zebra; on the other side, a cat sitting next to a bowl.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43960

Accession Number: 1970.1310.779

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Black transfer printed image of a man and a woman leaning towards one another, the man holding something out to the woman (perhaps a small animal) that he has removed from an box at his feet.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43961

Accession Number: 1970.1310.781

Mug

Earthenware mug. Cylindrical with loop handle and leaf terminals. Painted with red flowers, green leaves, and pink luster foliate accents. Pink luster band at rim, with luster accents on handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, lusterware

GUSN: 43962

Accession Number: 1970.1310.782

Children's Mug

Pearlware children's mug. Floral transfer-printed blue design encircles the outer, upper lip of mug. Inscription is inside an elongated octagon and surrounded by a leaf pattern. Hand painted blue lines encircle the interior upper lip of mug as well as down the center of the handle.

Date: ca. 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing, pearlware

GUSN: 43963

Accession Number: 1970.1310.783

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug, "The Sower." Dark red transfer printed scene with a man scattering scene and a horse pulling a plow in the background. Over painted with green, blue, yellow, orange, and dark red. With a pink lustre bind at the rim, and lustre detail on the handle, and a narrow lustre ...

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing, lusterware

GUSN: 43964

Accession Number: 1970.1310.784

Mug

Porcelain mug. Cylindrical with dog-shaped handle. Beaded rim and base with gold luster lines. Dog has gold luster collar.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, lusterware

GUSN: 43965

Accession Number: 1970.1310.785

Childrens' Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Canary yellow glazed body, with dark red transfer printed image of girl kneeling and praying in front of a cottage, with a cat lying in the grass to her left. Hand painted copper lustre line around rim and down handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing, lusterware

GUSN: 43967

Accession Number: 1970.1310.787

Mug

Eathernware mug. Canary yellow cylindrical body with loop handle and leaf terminals. Luster decoration with berries and leaves in dark red and green. Luster band at rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, lusterware

GUSN: 43968

Accession Number: 1970.1310.788

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Brown transfer printed design of a man reading a book while walking up a garden path towards a large house. Overpainting in green, blue and red. Hand-painted brown line around the upper lip of mug and down the center of handle.

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43969

Accession Number: 1970.1310.789

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Dark red transfer printed image of two women standing outdoors, gazing at a picturesque building in the distance. Hand painted line down handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43970

Accession Number: 1970.1310.790

Children's Mug

Eathernware children's mug. Slightly tapered body, narrower at top, with loop handle. Decoration in pink luster, featuring a bird sitting in a low bush. Luster band around rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, lusterware

GUSN: 43971

Accession Number: 1970.1310.791

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mugs. Blue transfer printed design with a horned sheep and a pastoral landscape above the words, "Present from Carolina." Hand painted brown line around inside of rim, outside of rim, and down handle.

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43972

Accession Number: 1970.1310.792

Children's Mug

Pearlware children's mug with black transfer-printed design of a mother a child in the foreground. Two structures in the background including a windmill. Over painting of green, brown and yellow. Brown painted rim.

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43973

Accession Number: 1970.1310.793

Children's Mug

Blue and white transfer-printed. Interior upper rim smudged upside down triangle design- also on handle. Mother and daughter appears to be preparing to attend church. Letters, image and decorative elements were haphazardly place and looked smudged/blurry, ill-defined.

Date: ca. 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43974

Accession Number: 1970.1310.794

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Cylindrical with loop handle and raised band at base. Black transfer printed images. On one side, a decorative border surrounding the words "A Present for Sarah." On the other side, a lion watching an elephant.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 43975

Accession Number: 1970.1310.795

Towel

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: textiles

GUSN: 46845

Accession Number: 1963.331

Dish

Delftware plate with white glaze and blue decoration. Wide border of abstract flowers with fan-like leaves. Central image of flowers, vase on table, and fence.

Date: 1710-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), tin glaze

GUSN: 46846

Accession Number: 1963.332

Portrait of Guilford Dudley Young

Bust-length portrait of a man with a green collar and white stock. Original label reads "Brother of Caroline Young (Mrs. Ebenezer Dale), Guilford Dudley Young, painted by one of his classmates Yale College."

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 46847

Accession Number: 1963.336

Coverlet

Blue wool and white linen, reversible; overall geometric pattern of striped and barred gridwork; four small interlocking wheels at intersections. Selvage side edges; hemmed top and bottom.

Date: 1790-1825

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 46848

Accession Number: 1963.339

Two Dragon Serving Boats

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 46849

Accession Number: 1963.340.1-.2

Needlework Picture

This round, silk mourning picture depicts nine mourners dressed in black huddle around a monument with urn on top. Several figures string a garland of roses on the front and side of the monument. One weeping willow on either side and a white classical revival house at the left.

Date: 1804

Maker: Attributed to Abbe, Betsey, 1788-1809 (Maker) Lydia Royce School (Inscriber)

Material: embroidering, painting (coating), silk (textile)

GUSN: 46850

Accession Number: 1963.341

Chair

Armchair. Maple seat rail, white pine corner blocks. Seat and back upholstered in red damask; open arms, inlaid; straight stretchers. Rests on straight legs with casters.

Date: 1800-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: inlay (process), maple (wood), upholstering, Norway spruce (wood)

GUSN: 46851

Accession Number: 1963.345

Sideboard

Sideboard. Bowfront facade with three upper drawers; three lower doors; inlaid drawers and doors. Rests on tapered legs with inlaid cuffs, bellflowers.

Date: 1795-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: inlay (process), mahogany (wood), veneer, maple (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 46852

Accession Number: 1963.346

High Chest

High chest. Mahogany with white pine secondary wood. Top section has four long drawers and three short drawers. Top center drawer decorated with a carved shell. Scroll pediment, finials missing. Four drawers on bottom section. Carved fan on bottom center drawer. Rests on cabriole legs that term...

Date: 1760-1780

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), Norway spruce (wood)

GUSN: 46853

Accession Number: 1963.349AB