Historic New England

Platter

Blue, transfer-print pearlware platter. Diamond chain edge and border of four cartouches: raccoon, beaver, bear, goat, radiating from central rectangular scene of moose in woods and men in canoe; baskets of flowers separate the four cartouches.

Date: 1814-1832

Maker: Hall & Sons, John (Maker)

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

GUSN: 47889

Accession Number: 1969.610.130

Platter

Blue, transfer-print pearlware platter. Diamond chain edge and border of four scenic cartouches: ox, wolf, fox, anteater, radiating from central scenic rectangle of 2 horses on the grounds of a country house; baskets of flowers separate the four cartouches.

Date: 1814-1832

Maker: Hall & Sons, John (Maker)

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

GUSN: 47890

Accession Number: 1969.610.135

Platter

Blue, transfer-print pearlware platter. Circular and triangular cut-out border, fluted scroll handles; inner border of four scenic cartouches: cows, goats, leopard, spaniel chasing duck; all separated by stalks of flowers; central scene of man hunting w/ spaniel.

Date: 1814-1832

Maker: Hall & Sons, John (Maker)

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

GUSN: 47891

Accession Number: 1969.610.136

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

Book

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 48701

Accession Number: 1971.2188

Book

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 48702

Accession Number: 1971.2191.1

Book

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 48703

Accession Number: 1971.2191.2

Bandbox

Small bandbox covered with wallpaper. Wallpaper has a pattern of black, green, white, pink and orange flowers on gray ground. Box is lined with a Boston newspaper dated 1844.

Date: 1844-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 48704

Accession Number: 1972.1AB

Bed valance

Rectangular off white plain weave linen bed valance, pieced, straight with shaped and curved end; polychromatic wool embroidery with central flowering tree in outline flanked by undulating flowering vine; applied cotton netted fringe with bellflower-like cotton tufted swag chains at bottom.

Date: 1775-1799

Maker: unknown

Material: crewelwork (technique), embroidering, fringe, linen (material), piecing, wool (textile)

GUSN: 48705

Accession Number: 1972.3

Bed valance

Rectangular straight off-white fustian panel with polychromatic wool embroidery with scrolling blue-green and gold vines eminating from central red chrysanthemum; vine has selection of buds and flowers with few leaves; use of blue-green, gold, green, cream, pink, peach and tans; olive twill wool tap...

Date: 1750-1780

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), crewelwork (technique), embroidering, fustian, linen (material), wool (textile)

GUSN: 48706

Accession Number: 1972.6

Toile Fragment

Cotton toile fragment. Red and white views of peoples and environments of four continents.

Date: 1780-1795

Maker: After Huet, Jean Baptiste (Designer)

Material: copper engraving (printing process), cotton (textile), toile (textile material)

GUSN: 48707

Accession Number: 1972.7

Toile Fragment

Rectangular, blue on blue roller print cloth fragment. Depicts William Henry Harrison's campaign image - a log cabin and a barrell of hard cider. Large scale floral bunches and a portrait of Harrison within a wreath.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz, cotton (textile), glazing (coating), printing (process), rolling up, textiles, tin (metal)

GUSN: 48708

Accession Number: 1972.8

Bed flounce, skirt or dust ruffle

Long, rectangular; repeating scenes of Gen. Zachary Taylor astride horse directing American soldiers at battle of Palo Alto, Mexico. Floral wreath-like surrounds; green/drab ground. Narrow hemmed bottom; narrow casing at top; drawstring; very gathered.

Date: 1848-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), glazing (coating)

GUSN: 48709

Accession Number: 1972.9

Bed Curtain Fragment

Rectangular; brown and white copperplate with repeated scene of British assault on walled city; British warships in river. In center foreground mounted officers face viewer; point sword toward action. Hemmed bottom; selvage sides; cut top.

Date: 1755-1765

Maker: unknown

Material: copper engraving (printing process), cotton (textile), toile (textile material), textiles, copper (metal)

GUSN: 48710

Accession Number: 1972.10

Dress

Long; white; neckline and yoke, cuffs and hem trimmed with tatting; dress gathered at yoke; long sleeves; three bands of narrow tucks at hem; drawstring closure at neckline.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), stitching, tatting (process)

GUSN: 48711

Accession Number: 1972.11

Finial

Broken wood dowel in base.

Date: 1838

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 48712

Accession Number: 1972.12

Pitcher

Blue and white sponged glaze over tall pitcher with slightly tapering body; diamond-and-flower pattern in relief.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 48713

Accession Number: 1972.17

Pitcher

Yellow-white glaze over tall pitcher w/ slightly tapering body; diamond-and-flower pattern (partially picked out in blue glaze) in relief.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 48714

Accession Number: 1972.18

Teapot

Blue transfer-printed earthenware teapot. Oval finial. Floral accents on handle, spout, and finial. Diamond lattice band surrounds the cover and rim. Nature scene adorns the body.

Date: 1905-1915

Maker: Booth's Ltd. (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing

GUSN: 48715

Accession Number: 1972.19AB

Sugar Bowl

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 48716

Accession Number: 1972.21A

Needlework Picture

Oval, silk mourning picture. Two women on either side of a memorial with an urn on top. Large tree at right, several small trees and buildings at left. Weeping willow behind memorial. Sky, heads and arms are painted. stitches: satin stitch, french knot

Date: 1804

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 48717

Accession Number: 1972.22

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