Historic New England

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Red transfer-printed designs. Inscription, "Sarah Ann" in cursive script and alternating upside down triangle design encircles the upper, inner section of mug.

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44332

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1169

Earthenware children's mug. Blue transfer printed design with the words "A Pledge of Esteem" flanked by a girl holding a doll at right, and a boy riding a dog at left. Decorative border printed around rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44333

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1170

Children's Mug

Creamware children's mug. Transfer-printed brown design of a mother and daughter walking in a garden where the flower blossom are larger than the figures. Hand-painted accents. Pink lusterware outlines the upper and lower portions of mug.

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, creamware, lusterware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44334

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1171

Mug

Porcelain mug. Cylindrical with vertical ribs in relief around body, with loop handle. Decorative floral band in dark orange and gold around top of body, edged with gold luster. Luster lines around base and rim. Luster accent on handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, lusterware

GUSN: 44335

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1172

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Brown transfer printed design with three boys playing leap frog in front of a rail fence. Hand painted black line around rim and down handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44336

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1173

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Black transfer printed image of idyllic landscape with large picturesque building in background, a flock of sheep at right, and a man and woman walking past a tree at left. Wide copper lustre band at rim, with thin lustre lines around base, below rim on inside, and down...

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing, lusterware

GUSN: 44337

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1174

Children's Mug

Porcelain children's mug. Shaped base, rounded-top rim, and spurred ear-shaped handle. Gold luster decoration with inscription, flanked by floral decoration in green, blue, pink, and brown. Gold luster lines around base, rim, and down handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, lusterware

GUSN: 44338

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1175

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Blue glazed band around body, with two black transfer printed images of a monkey and a zebra.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44339

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1176

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Cylindrical with loop handle and leaf terminals. Painted with purple flowers, large purple and lavender leaves, and small green leaves. Pink luster band at rim, and luster lines around base and down handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, lusterware

GUSN: 44340

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1177

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Shaped base with loop handle. Blue transfer printed image of a toy train with engine and two cars.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44341

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1178

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Canary background with floral swags punctuated by birds; rectangular block of black has letters cut out in the center spelling, "ANN."

Date: 1825

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44342

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1179

Mug

Earthenware mug. Cylindrical with loop handle and leaf terminals. Mochaware decoration with black dendritic pattern on mustard yellow ground.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, mocha ware

GUSN: 44343

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1180

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Maroon transfer-printed rectangle with triangle border surrounding inscription.

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44344

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1181

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Canary yellow glazed body, with dark red transfer printed image of man and woman in pastoral landscape with farm buildings.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44345

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1182

Children's Mug

Earthenware chlildren's mug. Brown transfer-printed design of men surrounded by flower blossums. Over painting in blue, red, green and beige. Pink luster accents the upper lip of mug and the center of handle.

Date: 1810

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, lusterware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44346

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1183

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Brown faded images made through transfer-printing. One image of a fish lying on its side and another of an insect flying around a garden with a potted plant urn.

Date: ca. 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44347

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1184

Children's Mug

Pearlware children's mug. Black transfer-printed design of a man on horseback being chased by a dog as the owner steps out the front door of his home. Overpainting of the scene in green, yellow and blue. Quatrefoils and floral motifs decorate the inner lip of mug and along the handle.

Date: 1840

Maker: Gilpin, John (Maker)

Material: earthenware, pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44348

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1185

Children's Mug

Porcelain children's mug. Cylindrical with ear-shaped handle. Black transfer printed image with two women in long dresses gazing at a sleeping Cupid on the ground. Pink luster lines around rim, beneath rim inside, and just above base.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, transfer printing, lusterware

GUSN: 44349

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1186

Children's Mug

Blue and white transfer-printed design on earthenware mug. The scene is of a shop and has corresponding inscription.

Date: ca. 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44350

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1187

Mug

Earthenware mug with attached frog inside. Transfer-printed designs of "The Sailor's Return" on one side, and the flags of Britain and France on the other with a bird, a lion, and the motto "May they ever be united" above "Crimea." Over-painted by hand in green, yellow, red, blue, pink, and peach....

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44351

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1188

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Transfer-printed scene of two girls in dresses with a sheep, titled "The favourite lamb." Overpainted by hand in green, yellow, and blue. Pink lustre band around rim, with stripe down handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44352

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1189

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Black transfer printed designs with captions in French. On one side, a dromedary (camel with one hump), and on the other side, a leopard crouching on a rock.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44353

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1190

Mug

Porcelain mug. Shaped base, rounded-top rim, and loop handle. Floral decoration in pink, yellow, red, green, and purple. Initials and date written in gold, "M A / 1833." Gold lines around rim, base, and down handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, lusterware

GUSN: 44354

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1191

Mug

Earthenware mug with two handles. Dark blue glaze on most of body, with a roughly oval space on each side that frames an image. Red transfer printed images are Oriental in theme. Gold lustre swirls and accents painted over dark blue glaze on body. Lustre band at rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing, lusterware

GUSN: 44355

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1192

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Olive green glaze in wide band around body. Black transfer printed scenes with several horses and riders.

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44356

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1193

Mug

Large earthenware mug. Red transfer printed scene with two men standing atop a representative map of Europe. The man at left, "The Governor of Europe," wears a bicorne hat and has a sword at his side, "dancing" on the mainland section of Europe. The man at right is half his size but also has a sw...

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 44357

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1194

Thimble Holder

Carved wooden thimble holder and thimble.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 45799

Accession Number: 1955.187

Child's Petticoat

Cream skirt with white cotton top; gathered all around waist; back opening reinforced at seam with bar/buttonhole stitch; hem has wide band of featherstitching; and woolen lace of openwork pattern.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), wool (textile)

GUSN: 45801

Accession Number: 1955.189

Needlework

White beadwork on green yarn background.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 45802

Accession Number: 1955.191

Needlework Picture

Needlework and beadwork on red background.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 45803

Accession Number: 1955.192

Bed valance fragment

Rectangular; hemmed on bottom and one end, raw on opposite; casing for drawstring across top. Single green and red stenciled vine with flowers, buds and leaves thru middle. Stenciled loops and star border across bottom in green and red.

Date: ca. 1830

Maker: unknown

Material: fustian, painting (coating), stenciling

GUSN: 45804

Accession Number: 1955.197

Container

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 45808

Accession Number: 1955.208

Apple Peeler and Parer

"Automatic Apple Parer" patented by John D. Seagrave of Worcester, Massachusetts in 1854. Apple is speared on a metal shaft with three sharp tines. The shaft is turnd by a handle, assisted by metal gears, by operator. Adjustable paring blade on a moveable, spring-loaded arm presses against turning ...

Date: 1854-1864

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 45809

Accession Number: 1955.214

Apple Corer

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 45810

Accession Number: 1955.215

Box

Round, wooden cheese box.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 45812

Accession Number: 1955.219AB

Cheese Basket

Large cheese basket.

Maker: unknown

Material: reed (grass, material)

GUSN: 45813

Accession Number: 1955.220

Box

A wooden box covered in leather. Hinged cover with a loop handle, turnkey lock, and metal accents. Interior lined with wallpaper.

Maker: unknown

Material: leather

GUSN: 45814

Accession Number: 1955.221

Reaping Hook

No description

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 45815

Accession Number: 1955.222

Pincushion

Rectangular shpaed pincushion with pointed edges; small orange floral embroidery; orange tassels; semi-illegible initials spelled out with straight pins on one side

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 45816

Accession Number: 1955.223