Historic New England

Fruit Dish

A conforming underplate to dish 1986.11A.

Date: ca. 1845

Maker: Alcock, J. & G., 1839-1846 (Maker)

Material: earthenware, pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 50585

Accession Number: 1986.11A-B

It is circular with a flared footring. It is transfer printed in black with a tree-of-lie and floral pattern on the interior and repeated on the exterior. It is hand painted in lustrous pink, blue, brown and green.

Date: 1868-1899

Maker: E.M. & Co (Maker) E. Malkin & Co. (Maker)

Material: earthenware, painting (image-making), hand-painted, pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 50586

Accession Number: 1986.12

Portrait of George Washington

Portrait of George Washington. One of a set of lithograph portraits, half-length, of first eight presidents, each identified in lower margin. Shallow molded black frames (American King series).

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: Possibly Perkins, F. A. (Framer)

Material: lithography, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 50587

Accession Number: 1986.13.1

Needle Case

Finial-like needle case, with a bulbous top carved with a leaf and star pattern on a pierced and ribbed body. It has a scalloped foot and each section is threaded to screw into each other.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), ivory (tooth component), leaf (plant material), foliation (pattern), leaf (metal), palm fiber

GUSN: 50588

Accession Number: 1986.14

Candlestick

Candlestick in the form of a snake with a petal-shaped drip pan and a bulbous candlecup.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), casting (process)

GUSN: 50589

Accession Number: 1986.15

Trinket Box

A small rectangular form with a raised gilded decoration. It has a hinged lid and decorative reserve. This is enclosed with polychrome print of the Madonna and Child.

Date: 1900-1991

Maker: unknown

Material: gesso, gilding, transfer printing, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 50590

Accession Number: 1986.16

Card Table

Card table. Mahogany, bird's eye maple veneer, white pine secondary wood. Rectangular top with demilune leaves; string-inlaid edge and conforming inlaid skirt with bird's eye maple veneer. Rests on tapered inlaid legs. Branded "H.C." at left side of frame.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: bird's-eye maple, mahogany (wood), pine (wood), veneering

GUSN: 50591

Accession Number: 1986.18

Side Chair

Side chair. Mahogany, maple/birch, leather upholstery. Molded shield-shaped back with three shaped uncarved ribs radiating from the lunette. Molded stiles, leather covered seats with double row of brass tacks, and tapered and molded front legs with "H" shaped stretchers. Legs have a pronounced t...

Date: 1795-1805

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), maple (wood), birch (wood), leather

GUSN: 50592

Accession Number: 1986.19.1

Student's Lamp

A double student lamp, rod-like standard on a stepped circular base with two arms holding urn-shaped fonts. It has a dark red ribbed glass shade with white glass interior (cased glass). It is now electrified.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), flashing (glassworking), glass (material), molding (forming)

GUSN: 50593

Accession Number: 1986.20

Dining Table

Dining table. Maple and birch. Oval top with demilune hinged leaves, spool turned legs, stretchers and gate leg.

Date: 1725-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: birch (wood), maple (wood), staining

GUSN: 50594

Accession Number: 1986.22

Hoop Back Windsor Armchair

A hoop back chair with ten tapered spindles and shaped handholds, and an oval seat with a gentle peak at the front. It has splayed vase and reel turned arm supports, and stretchers with bulbous centers.

Date: 1785-1805

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 50595

Accession Number: 1986.25

Child's Windsor Armchair with Rockers

Of "captain chair" form, with turned spindle, front legs and stretcher. It is on rockers and stained a dark brown.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 50596

Accession Number: 1986.26

One Drawer Stand

Small stand or occasional table. Mahogany, pine and birch secondary wood. Projecting square top on a straight skirt with a single drawer and slender tapering legs.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: birch (wood), mahogany (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 50597

Accession Number: 1986.27

Candlestick

A chamberstick with a hook handle and a saucer-like (illeg.) on a cylindrical standard with a push up device. It has a saucer shape base.It is handmade, rolled and joined.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 50598

Accession Number: 1986.28

Sofa

The sofa has a five-sided cyma curved crestrail and seatrail, scrolled bracket feet and arms with shaped ends, and it's on castors. It has an upholstered gold brocade, three cushions in back, a box cushion for the seat and swept arms.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: brocade (textile), mahogany (wood), veneer, upholstering

GUSN: 50599

Accession Number: 1986.29

Stool

Stool. Birch, maple, rush. Trapezoidal shaped rush seat with exposed corner seat rail. Rests on straight front legs with beaded edge and box stretchers.

Date: 1780-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: birch (wood), maple (wood), rush (material)

GUSN: 50600

Accession Number: 1986.30

Chair

It is a "cottage style" with a shaped crest rail and conforming slat. There is a shaped cane seat, saber legs and it is all stained a dark brown.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood), staining

GUSN: 50601

Accession Number: 1986.31

Pitcher

An octagonal pitcher with a square handle. The pitcher has a transfer print decoration of a Chinoseire pattern of buildings, fences, and a large vase with a border of leaves, vines and a building, "The Temple".

Date: 1834-1859

Maker: Podmore, Walker & Co. (Maker)

Material: earthenware, ironstone (pottery), transfer printing

GUSN: 50602

Accession Number: 1986.32.1

Wall Fixture

A pair of electrified, brass wall lights with pendant, cut glass drops. It has a domed back light plate with a cast grape patterned overlay holding a ball form with a decorative pendant and finial. There are two "S" shaped candlearms with cast grape patterned bobeche, and there are "faux" candlestic...

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), casting (process), glass (material), metal, painting (coating)

GUSN: 50603

Accession Number: 1986.33.1

Fender

It has a bow front brass rail with vertical wirework body.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal)

GUSN: 50604

Accession Number: 1986.34

Shovel

A wrought iron shovel with a belted ball finial on a turned brass handle and steel shaft.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), casting (process), iron (metal), steel (alloy), wrought

GUSN: 50605

Accession Number: 1986.35.1

Bucket

A wrought iron bale handle and iron rim on brass bucket with a copper base.

Date: 1780-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), copper (metal), hammering, iron (metal), metal, riveting

GUSN: 50606

Accession Number: 1986.36

Hand Bellows

It is painted yellow with a floral decoration in green and red, with a brass tip.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), leather, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 50607

Accession Number: 1986.37

Chair

The chair has a serpentine crest rail over three conforming slats and a rush seat. It has straight front legs with a beaded edge and a box stretcher.

Date: 1780-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: birch (wood), maple (wood), rush (material)

GUSN: 50608

Accession Number: 1986.38.1

Woodcut Print

There are two Geisha-like figures by an orange tent at the beach in the foreground and a fisherman in the distance. It is mounted on a ecru mat in a simple black frame with glass.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), woodcut (process)

GUSN: 50609

Accession Number: 1986.40

Card Table

Card table. Mahogany with birch veneer and lightwood inlay. Demilune leaves with inlaid ends that peak at the top of the legs; a string inlaid conforming skirt. Rests on tapered legs with string inlay.

Date: 1795-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: birch (wood), veneer, inlay (process), mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 50610

Accession Number: 1986.41

Portrait of a Woman

A sepia tone print of a Hans Holbein sketch of a woman, bust length. In a simple mahogany frame.

Date: ca. 1920

Maker: Holbein, Hans (Painter) Hanfstaengl, Franz (Photographer)

Material: paper (fiber product), photographs

GUSN: 50611

Accession Number: 1986.42

Rocking Chair

Rocking chair with serpentine crest, upholstered back and seat. Open arms on "C" shaped inlayed supports. Removable upholstered slip seat. Chair seat fitted with circular cut out for a chamber pot. Chair rests on squared inlaid legs on rockers.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: Short, Joseph, 1771-1819 (Maker)

Material: mahogany (wood), white pine (wood), birch (wood)

GUSN: 50612

Accession Number: 1986.43

Lithographic Print

A colored overview of Mt. Vernon with a solitary male mourner at the tomb of Washington. It is in a mahogany veneered Empire frame.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: Currier, Nathaniel (Maker)

Material: lithography, mahogany (wood), veneer, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 50613

Accession Number: 1986.44

Portrait of a Woman

A portrait of a woman with brown hair, facing forward in a square wicked dress. In a molded and gilt frame with tracery motif.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 50614

Accession Number: 1986.45

Sofa

Sofa with a gently arched crest, sloping sides, and open rounded arms. There are four swelled, reeded, inlaid blocks over the front legs and three rounded rear legs. It is upholstered in cotton and diaper patterned in beige-brown modern fabric.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), upholstering

GUSN: 50615

Accession Number: 1986.46

Wall Mirror

Of rectangular form, the cornice has rosettes and scrolls centering a beaded wreath. One facade is molded with husks and beaded rosettes at the corner blocks and a rosette pendent. Molded on the side are fruit and leaf form "drops" at the top and bottom.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, mirrors, pine (wood), glass (material)

GUSN: 50616

Accession Number: 1986.47

End Table

It has a shaped rectangular top with a ribbed edge on a baluster turned and reeded shaft, with arched reeded legs and brass paw feet.

Date: 1940-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 50617

Accession Number: 1986.48

Basin

It ia a faceted, canted edge bowl with a transfer print in dark brown with scenes of Romantic gardens and ruins within a Gothic style reserve.

Date: 1853-1861

Maker: Alcock, John (Maker)

Material: earthenware, stoneware (pottery), transfer printing

GUSN: 50618

Accession Number: 1986.49

Comb-back Windsor Armchair

Grain painted serpentine crest rail with eleven tapering spindles, and a vase-turned arm support and two tapering supports. There is an oval scooped seat over the vase-turned splayed legs and a bulbous center turned stretchers.

Date: 1780-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 50619

Accession Number: 1986.50

Print

A large black and white print of a cathedral with a molded mahogany frame.

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: Bigelow & Jordan (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product), photographs

GUSN: 50620

Accession Number: 1986.51

Watercolor

Watercolor depicting the Spencer-Peirce-Little House from the driveway, laundry hanging to the left of the house. Described in cataloger's worksheet as "House with grey roof, purple windows, single chimney, surrounded by trees and shrubs."

Date: 1875-1900

Maker: L.A. Bigelow Inc. (Framer) Stone, Cornelia P. (Artist)

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

GUSN: 50621

Accession Number: 1986.52

Vase

A rectiliner vase with green-gray glaze.

Date: 1930-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), stoneware (pottery), tin (metal)

GUSN: 50622

Accession Number: 1986.54

Hand Fan

Of shield shape, pierced with an overall diamond border with flower patterns. It is painted gold and decorated with a polychrome Griffin at the center and a floral border. With a horn handle.

Date: 1880-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves, horn (animal material), painting (coating), paper (fiber product), piercing

GUSN: 50623

Accession Number: 1986.55

Lamp

Of bulbous square form, cast with a rondel(?) on each side of a woman's face in high relief. It is within a honeycomb reserve and foliate elements at the sides, on four paw form feet. It is a kerosene lamp that has been eletrified. It has a bronze and pewter finish.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: bronze (metal), casting (process), pewter (tin alloy), metal, white metal, tin (metal)

GUSN: 50624

Accession Number: 1986.56

Drop Leaf Table

Claw-foot drop leaf table. Mahogany. Square top when opened; two hinged rectangular leaves; scalloped skirt at the end rails. Rests on cabriole legs with ball and claw feet.

Date: 1760-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), maple (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 50625

Accession Number: 1986.57

Floor Lamp

A black painted cast metal finial on a rod with an adjustable scrolled arm. There is a stamped leaf bracket and light socket on a tripod base with a leafy ornament.

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: casting (process), iron (metal), metal, painting (coating)

GUSN: 50626

Accession Number: 1986.58

Drop-leaf dining table

Gateleg or trestle table. Maple, white pine. Oval top, two demilune leaves, one drawer. Block-and-baluster-turned stretchers and gate. Rests on block-and-baluster-turned legs.

Date: 1715-1740

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 50727

Accession Number: 1986.187

Armchair

Lolling armchair. Mahogany, modern upholstery. Upholstered back and seat, serpentine crest, flattened scroll arms; set back "C" shape supports that continue to side seat rail, tapering front legs, "H" stretchers.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), upholstering

GUSN: 50728

Accession Number: 1986.188

Upholstered rocking chair

Scrolled crest, stiles, curving arms and arm supports; convex seat rail, saber legs, scroll front rockers; upholstered back, seat, and arm rests in modern blue and white fleck woven fabric.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), walnut (wood)

GUSN: 50729

Accession Number: 1986.189

Footstool

Two tiered, pierced triangular sides; upholstered in modern green damask; dark stain.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: poplar (wood), upholstering, Norway spruce (wood)

GUSN: 50730

Accession Number: 1986.190

Dining table

Dining table. Maple, white pine secondary wood. Two-leaf oval top; shaped arched end rails. Rests on abriole legs with pad feet.

Date: 1750-1770

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 50731

Accession Number: 1986.191

Mirror

Rectangular form w/ shell carved? pedement, volutes and finial extensions at corners; the molded rails and stiles w/ vines; flower and leaf carved pendant; painted gold.

Date: 1780-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), painting (coating)

GUSN: 50732

Accession Number: 1986.192

Easy chair

Easy chair. Mahogany frame. Upholstered. Serpentine crest, flaring "S" shape, rounded wings, small scrolled arms; ring and vase shaped turned front legs, square back legs. Twentieth-century cotton paisley style print in red, blue, green, and golds.

Date: 1810-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), upholstering

GUSN: 50733

Accession Number: 1986.193

Slant-top desk

Slant-top desk. Maple, white pine. Molded slant top opens to eight pigeon holes with arches and drawers; over three graduated thumb molded drawers. Rests on straight bracket feet.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 50734

Accession Number: 1986.195

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