Historic New England

Serving Dish with Lid

Blue, transfer-print pearlware dish (A) with lid (B). Diamond chain edge and border of four scenic cartouches: cougar, skunk, mink threatening rabbit, fox, separated by urn-shaped flowers; central scene of polar bears and men shooting; lid has leafy scroll border and rose finial.

Date: 1814-1832

Maker: Hall & Sons, John (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing, pearlware

GUSN: 47892

Accession Number: 1969.610.137AB

Dessert dish

Dark blue with white beaded rim and border of leafy scrolls and central scene of otter foraging amidst cattails.

Date: 1814-1832

Maker: Hall & Sons, John (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 47894

Accession Number: 1969.610.141

Soup Plate

Blue transfer-printed pearlware soup plate. Four medallions surround a centralized circular medallion. Each medallion features a different quadruped bordered by scrolls.

Date: 1814-1832

Maker: Hall & Sons, John (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing

GUSN: 47895

Accession Number: 1969.610.31

Luncheon Plate

Blue transfer-printed pearlware luncheon plate. Four medallions surround a centralized circular medallion. Each medallion features a different quadruped bordered by scrolls.

Date: 1814-1832

Maker: Hall & Sons, John (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing

GUSN: 47896

Accession Number: 1969.610.49

Salad Plate

Blue transfer-printed pearlware salad plate. Four medallions surround a centralized circular medallion. Each medallion features a different quadruped bordered by scrolls.

Date: 1814-1832

Maker: Hall & Sons, John (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing

GUSN: 47897

Accession Number: 1969.610.73

Dessert Plate

Blue transfer-printed pearlware dessert plate. Four medallions surround a centralized circular medallion. Each medallion features a different quadruped bordered by scrolls.

Date: 1814-1832

Maker: Hall & Sons, John (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing

GUSN: 47898

Accession Number: 1969.610.88

Dinner Fork

One of a set of six. Silver dinner fork with a fiddle handle and squared shoulders. Four tines.

Date: 1861

Maker: Lias Brothers (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47899

Accession Number: 1969.640.1.1

Tablespoon

One of a set of six. Silver tablespoon. Fiddle handle with threading along the edge. Square shoulders. Oval pointed bowl. Engraved bird on the handle.

Date: 1861

Maker: Lias Brothers

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47900

Accession Number: 1969.640.2.1

Mustard Spoon

One of a set of six. Silver mustard spoon with a downturned fiddle handle, pointed shoulders, and an oval bowl.

Date: 1861

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47901

Accession Number: 1969.640.3.1

Demitasse Spoon

One of a set of four. Silver demitasse spoon. Rounded downturned handle with squared shoulders and an oval bowl. Engraved bird on the handle.

Date: 1861

Maker: Lias Brothers

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47902

Accession Number: 1969.640.4.1

Sugar Tongs

Silver sugar tongs with tapered arms, squared shoulders, and pointed oval bowls. Antique design.

Date: 1841

Maker: Lias Brothers (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47903

Accession Number: 1969.640.6

Salad Fork

One of a set of seventeen. Silver salad fork. Fiddle handle with square shoulders and four tines.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: Curry, John, 1825-1867 (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47904

Accession Number: 1969.641.1

Salad Fork

One of a set of twelve. Silver salad fork with a fiddle handle and rounded shoulder. Four tines.

Date: 1845-1850

Maker: Harris & Stanwood (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47905

Accession Number: 1969.642.1.1

Dinner Fork

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner fork with a rounded spatulate handle and four tines.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47906

Accession Number: 1969.643.1.1

Salad Fork

One of a set of twelve. Silver salad fork. Rounded spatulate handle with four tines.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47907

Accession Number: 1969.643.2.1

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47908

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.1

Teaspoon

Silver teaspoon with a rounded handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47909

Accession Number: 1969.643.5.1

Tablespoon

One of a set of twelve. Silver tablespoon with a rounded handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47910

Accession Number: 1969.643.6.1

Dinner Fork

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner fork. Rounded spatulate handle with rounded shoulders and four tines.

Date: 1839-1840

Maker: Jones, Low & Ball (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47911

Accession Number: 1969.644.1.1

Salad Fork

One of a set of twelve. Silver salad fork. Fiddle handle with rounded shoulders. Four tines.

Date: 1839-1840

Maker: Jones, Low & Ball (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47912

Accession Number: 1969.644.2.1

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a spatulate fiddle handle, rounded shoulders, and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1839-1840

Maker: Jones, Low & Ball (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47913

Accession Number: 1969.644.3.1

Teaspoon

One of a set of seventeen. Silver teaspoon. Double-swell handle with sugarloaf shoulders and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1839-1840

Maker: Jones, Low & Ball (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47914

Accession Number: 1969.644.5.1

Dinner Knife

One of a set of eighteen. Silver dinner knife. Acanthus and rope molded handle.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47915

Accession Number: 1969.645.1.1

Iced Tea Spoon

Silver iced tea spoon with a long rounded handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1850-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47916

Accession Number: 1969.646.10

Dinner Fork

Silver dinner fork. Spatulate handle with four tines.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47917

Accession Number: 1969.646.1.1

Punch Ladle

Silver punch ladle with a rounded handle, a midrib, and a round bowl.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47918

Accession Number: 1969.646.11

Sugar Tongs

No description

Date: 1900-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47919

Accession Number: 1969.646.12

Salt Spoon

One of a set of four. Silver salt spoon. Rounded spatulate handle with a slight midrib. Circular bowl.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47920

Accession Number: 1969.646.13.1

Salad Fork

One of a set of eighteen. Silver salad fork with an oval handle and four tines.

Date: 1850-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47921

Accession Number: 1969.646.2.1

Luncheon Knife

One of a set of twelve. Silver luncheon knife. Oval handle with an engraved geometric pattern on the base.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: Christofle (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 47922

Accession Number: 1969.646.3.1

Fireboard

Fireboard composed of two panels, beveled in back; frame painted orange; rounded bright green trees, fruit-like forms (watermelons?) on one panel.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 47768

Accession Number: 1969.401

Small Purse

Small leather and mother-of-pearl purse or wallet. The front has a mother-of -pearl carved relief of a seated woman with dog in oval metal frame inlaid into center of mother-of-pearl panel. Red fabric interior with accordian fold dividers.

Maker: unknown

Material: mother of pearl, leather, cloth

GUSN: 47769

Accession Number: 1969.403

Portrait of Erastus Forbes Brigham

Bust-length portrait of Erastus Forbes Brigham (b. 1807), a Boston merchant with long sideburns, in painted oval.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 47770

Accession Number: 1969.406

Portrait of Sophia DeWolf Homer Brigham

Half-length portrait of Sophia DeWolf Homer Brigham with brown ringlets. She is wearing a fur trimmed shawl. Wife of Erastus Forbes Brigham and daughter of Andrew LaPierre Homer of Cambridge, MA.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 47771

Accession Number: 1969.407

Portrait of Erastus Forbes Brigham or Lincoln Flagg Brigham

Bust-length portrait of either a young Erastus Forbes Brigham or his brother, Lincoln Flagg Brigham, with dark hair and a beard.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: Possibly Haskell, Joseph A. (Artist)

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 47772

Accession Number: 1969.408

Needlework Picture

In this silk mourning picture a woman is bent over an elevated tomb. Her arms and head are painted. A large weeping willow spreads its leaves over the tomb, cypress trees surround the scene. Stitches used in this work include: satin stitch, long and short satin stitch, rice stitch, French knot, spli...

Date: 1813

Maker: unknown

Material: embroidering, paintings (visual works), silk (textile)

GUSN: 47773

Accession Number: 1969.409

Napkin

Square; white; with central basket of flowers in field of floral sprigs. Floral vine border.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: Stetson, Hannah (Embroiderer)

Material: damask, linen (material), textiles

GUSN: 47774

Accession Number: 1969.410

Nail

Envelope containing nails dated 7/9/49.

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 47775

Accession Number: 1969.412B

Upholstery Fragment

Piece of linen. Label reads "piece of linen herewith part of the original undercover of same chair. Some of the rest of it is still on the chair."

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 47776

Accession Number: 1969.412C

Slipcover

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 47777

Accession Number: 1969.412D

Wallpapered board

Board with tongue and groove edges and two layers of wallpaper. First (earliest) layer is a block printed floral design, printed in irise blue and brown over white on ungrounded paper. Design consists of large six-petalled flowers; each petal contains a foliate design. Around the flowers are meander...

Date: c. 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers, softwood, carving (processes)

GUSN: 47778

Accession Number: 1969.414A

Wallpapered board

Board with two layers of wallpaper attached. First (earliest) layer is a block printed floral design, printed in irise blue and brown over white on ungrounded paper. Design consists of large six-petalled flowers; each petal contains a foliate design. Around the flowers are meandering vines with flow...

Date: c. 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers, softwood, carving (processes)

GUSN: 47779

Accession Number: 1969.414B

Wallpapered board

Board with tongue and groove edges and two layers of wallpaper. First (earliest) layer is a block printed floral design, printed in irise blue and brown over white on ungrounded paper. Design consists of large six-petalled flowers; each petal contains a foliate design. Around the flowers are meander...

Date: c. 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers, softwood, carving (processes)

GUSN: 47780

Accession Number: 1969.414C

Box

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 47781

Accession Number: 1969.415

Ingrain Carpet Fragment

Fragment of pieced carpeting with repeating large scale motifs of foliate medallion alternating with eight point star; floral center within octagon border. Polychromatic uneven striped border.

Date: 1860-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, jacquard, wool (textile)

GUSN: 47782

Accession Number: 1969.420A

Ingrain Carpet

Pieced carpeting. Predominantly red with repeating motifs of starburst within octagon alternating with foliated cross; both within ground of leaves and vermiculi in cream, greens and golds.

Date: 1860-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, jacquard, wool (textile)

GUSN: 47783

Accession Number: 1969.421

Ingrain Carpet

Rectangular, large scale; naturalistic leaves on polychromatic woven stripe ground.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, jacquard, wool (textile)

GUSN: 47784

Accession Number: 1969.422

Ingrain Carpet

Rectangular with partial pattern of diamonds creating floral and bar cross on ground of woven stripes; shades of green. Detailing: red. Attached to carpet several fragments of roller printed floral print of light, large scale flowers on brown ground.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), flatweaves, jacquard, wool (textile)

GUSN: 47785

Accession Number: 1969.424