Historic New England

Cake plate

Porcelain cake plate with maroon border with gold scrolled swag and tassel border, and gold rim. Handles are cut out and surrounded by gilt scrolls.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 51505

Accession Number: 1987.268

White porcelain hand-painted teacup with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold band around base. Narrow ear-shaped handle with green outline and gold dots. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: gilding, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 51506

Accession Number: 1987.269.5

Cake Plate

White porcelain hand-painted cake plate with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold bands circling the center. Kidney shaped-handles cut into plate surrounded by painted leaves. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: gilding, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 51507

Accession Number: 1987.269.1

Saucer

White porcelain hand-painted saucer with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold band around center. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: gilding, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 51508

Accession Number: 1987.269.10

Saucer

White porcelain hand-painted saucer with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold band around center. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: gilding, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 51509

Accession Number: 1987.269.11

Saucer

White porcelain hand-painted saucer with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold band around center. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: gilding, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 51510

Accession Number: 1987.269.12

Saucer

White porcelain hand-painted saucer with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold band around center. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: gilding, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 51511

Accession Number: 1987.269.13

Saucer

White porcelain hand-painted saucer with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold band around center. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: gilding, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 51512

Accession Number: 1987.269.14

Saucer

White porcelain hand-painted saucer with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold band around center. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: gilding, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 51513

Accession Number: 1987.269.15

Teacup

White porcelain hand-painted teacup with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold band around base. Narrow ear-shaped handle with green outline and gold dots. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: hand-painted, gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 51514

Accession Number: 1987.269.4

Teacup

White porcelain hand-painted teacup with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold band around base. Narrow ear-shaped handle with green outline and gold dots. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: gilding, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 51515

Accession Number: 1987.269.6

Teacup

White porcelain hand-painted teacup with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold band around base. Narrow ear-shaped handle with green outline and gold dots. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: gilding, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 51516

Accession Number: 1987.269.7

Teacup

White porcelain hand-painted teacup with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold band around base. Narrow ear-shaped handle with green outline and gold dots. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: gilding, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 51517

Accession Number: 1987.269.8

Teacup

White porcelain hand-painted teacup with green band and gold dots, gold arabesque border and gold band around base. Narrow ear-shaped handle with green outline and gold dots. Part of twenty-one piece set.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: Briggs, Richard (Retailer)

Material: gilding, hand-painted, porcelain

GUSN: 51518

Accession Number: 1987.269.9

Portrait of Mr. Leroy Lyon

Portrait of an older gentleman with combed back white hair and blue eyes. Sitter is wearing a white button down shirt, narrow red tie, gray suit jacket, and brown belt. Oil on canvas, unframed.

Date: 1943

Maker: Sears, Edwin Buckingham, 1911-1986 (Artist)

Material: oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 51523

Accession Number: 1987.274

Portrait of Miss Fifi Wheeler

Pastel portrait of a young woman with short curly brown hair and brown eyes. Sitter is wearing a black beret, black turtleneck, and purple plaid scarf. Simple wood frame.

Date: 1942

Maker: Sears, Edwin Buckingham, 1911-1986 (Artist)

Material: pastels (crayons), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 51524

Accession Number: 1987.275

Portrait Picture

Framed pastel portrait of a woman with black hair wearing a red dress.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51525

Accession Number: 1987.276

Flute

Wooden flute with drilled holes.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 51526

Accession Number: 1987.278

Candlestick

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 51529

Accession Number: 1987.282.1

Candlestick

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 51530

Accession Number: 1987.282.2

Knife Rest

Clear glass knife rest.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 51531

Accession Number: 1987.283

Vase

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 51532

Accession Number: 1987.284

Celery Vase

Pair of glass footed celery vases. Octagonal foot and flared scalloped rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 51533

Accession Number: 1987.285.1

Celery Vase

Pair of glass footed celery vases. Octagonal foot and flared, scalloped rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 51534

Accession Number: 1987.285.2

Slip

White underskirt with pom-poms and embroidered sunflowers.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51423

Accession Number: 1987.185B

Telephone

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51424

Accession Number: 1987.187

Goblet

Pressed glass goblet.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 51425

Accession Number: 1987.194.1

Goblet

Pressed glass goblet.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 51426

Accession Number: 1987.194.2

Bracket

Foliate, with extremely heavy paint layers; white/grey on top; remounted on contemporary blocks for display; hand carved.

Date: 1795-1797

Maker: Skillen, John/Simeon (Carver) Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844 (Architect)

Material: carving (processes), painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 51427

Accession Number: 1987.198.1-2

Bracket

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51428

Accession Number: 1987.198.2

Calendar Tile

Small, bluish-gray transfer print on cream-colored ceramic decorative tile, depicting the State House in Boston on the front and a 1895 calendar on the back.

Date: 1895

Maker: Jones, McDuffee, & Stratton (Vendor) Wedgwood (Maker)

Material: drillwork (sculpture technique), paint (coating), ceramic glaze

GUSN: 51429

Accession Number: 1987.199

Center Table

Tripod baswe; scalloped top; scroll legs; columnar pillar; molded skirt.

Date: 1835-1860

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 51430

Accession Number: 1987.202

Trunk

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 51432

Accession Number: 1987.204

Portrait Picture

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51433

Accession Number: 1987.206

Portrait Picture

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51434

Accession Number: 1987.207

Stereoscope

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 51436

Accession Number: 1987.209

Picture

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51437

Accession Number: 1987.211

Picture

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51439

Accession Number: 1987.213.1

Picture

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51440

Accession Number: 1987.213.2

Picture

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51441

Accession Number: 1987.213.3

Picture

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51442

Accession Number: 1987.213.4

Picture

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51443

Accession Number: 1987.213.5

Picture

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51444

Accession Number: 1987.213.6

Picture

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51445

Accession Number: 1987.213.7

Mirror

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51446

Accession Number: 1987.214

Feather Wreath Shadow Box

Shadow box; encloses polychrome floral wreath made of feathers arranged on a pink satin foundation.

Maker: unknown

Material: feather (material), silk (textile), wood (plant material), glass (material)

GUSN: 51447

Accession Number: 1987.215

Landscape Print

Bird's eye view of two cities with small vignetted images all around outer edge featuring local buildings of note--churches, homes, hotels, businesses, factories.

Date: 1889

Maker: McAnn, L. W. (Publisher)

Material: chromolithographs

GUSN: 51448

Accession Number: 1987.216

Landscape Picture

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51449

Accession Number: 1987.217

Portrait of Francis Bacon

Portrait of a man with long sideburns, in red upholstered chair. Great great uncle of Edwin B. Sears.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 51450

Accession Number: 1987.218

Portrait of Queen Charlotte

Framed engraving of Queen Charlotte, shown standing in a pastoral setting.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 51452

Accession Number: 1987.220.1

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