Historic New England

Watercolor

In square format, a pair of vases of flowers done in pinks and green with delicate stems in an ivory colored background. Plain cream colored wood frames with mitered corners. Each flower was composed by multiple stencils.

Date: 1800-1824

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 11178

Accession Number: 1991.1195.1

Print

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: lithography, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11179

Accession Number: 1917.13

Watercolor

In square format, a pair of vases of flowers done in pinks and green with delicate stems in an ivory colored background. Plain cream colored wood frames with mitered corners. Each flower was composed by multiple stencils.

Date: 1800-1824

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 11180

Accession Number: 1991.1195.2

Garniture Vase

Pair of Dutch Delftware garniture vases, of hexagonal beaker form with a wide outflared scalloped rim, and tapered body with conforming base. It is decorated with hand-painted underglaze blue in a floral design of Chinese inspiration; the front three panels are covered with decoration and the back w...

Date: 1690-1725

Maker: unknown

Material: delftware, earthenware, lead glaze, molding (forming), painting (coating), underglazing

GUSN: 11181

Accession Number: 1991.1197.1

Garniture Vase

Pair of Dutch Delftware garniture vases, of hexagonal beaker form with a wide outflared scalloped rim, and tapered body with conforming base. It is decorated with hand-painted underglaze blue in a floral design of Chinese inspiration; the front three panels are covered with decoration and the back w...

Date: 1690-1725

Maker: unknown

Material: delftware, earthenware, lead glaze, molding (forming), painting (coating), underglazing

GUSN: 11182

Accession Number: 1991.1197.2

Print

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: lithography, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11183

Accession Number: 1917.16

Print

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: lithography, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11184

Accession Number: 1917.15

Print

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: lithography, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11185

Accession Number: 1917.17

Wrapping paper

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11186

Accession Number: 1917.19

Wrapping paper

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11187

Accession Number: 1917.20

Wrapping paper

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11188

Accession Number: 1917.21

Wrapping paper

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11189

Accession Number: 1917.22

Wrapping paper

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11190

Accession Number: 1917.97

Weight

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: lead (metal)

GUSN: 11191

Accession Number: 1917.99

Weight

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: lead (metal)

GUSN: 11192

Accession Number: 1917.100

Weight

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: lead (metal)

GUSN: 11193

Accession Number: 1917.101

Wallpaper

Wallpaper with alternating pink and light blue flowers between dark blue spiraled stripes.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11195

Accession Number: 1917.163

Box

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 11196

Accession Number: 1917.812

Reticule

No description

Date: 1855-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11197

Accession Number: 1917.814

Clothes

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11198

Accession Number: 1917.815

Stocking

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: machine-made

GUSN: 11199

Accession Number: 1917.817

Vest liner

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11200

Accession Number: 1917.818

Stocking

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: weaving, machine-made

GUSN: 11201

Accession Number: 1917.820

Strop

No description

Date: 1835-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11202

Accession Number: 1917.821

Stocking

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 11203

Accession Number: 1917.823

Stocking

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material)

GUSN: 11204

Accession Number: 1917.825

Stocking

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 11205

Accession Number: 1917.826

Stocking Fragment

Blue and white herringbone pattern knit fragment.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 11206

Accession Number: 1917.827

Portrait of a Lady with Bonnet

More than half-length portrait of a young woman with high cheekbones and blues eyes: wears a black dress with sloping shoulders, wears a close, white cap and holds a book in her left hand. In the background is a landscape of a river with a side wheel steamer, a white church and a red house on the s...

Date: 1834

Maker: Gassner, George, Mr., 1811-1861 (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 11207

Accession Number: 1991.938.2

Cloth Sample

Length of coarse, woven natural colored cotton; printed with paisley style carnations on a sinuous vine; printed in blues, reds, yellows, green, and black.

Date: 1900-1950 ?

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process), weaving

GUSN: 11208

Accession Number: 1991.1777

Cushion Cover

Each cushion has a coarse linen foundation embroidered with silk in a tent stitch in shades of yellow, blue, burgundy, pink and green; the pattern features "pronged" lozenges enclosing shaped diamonds on a field of diagonal yellow lines. The group includes two chair back covers and three seat cover...

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: embroidering, linen (material), silk (textile)

GUSN: 11209

Accession Number: 1991.1778.1-5

Bolt of Carpet

Bolt of tweedy, deep olive-green and brownish wool carpeting. Machine woven.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: weaving, machine-made, wool (textile)

GUSN: 11210

Accession Number: 1991.1779

Bedspread

Rectangular form comprised of four panels of printed glazed cotton; patterned with a design of a pheasant under a palmlike tree among a bed of flowers; printed on a coffee-colored ground with green, blue, rose, red, and black; self-bound edges; quilted overall in a diamond pattern; has a panelled an...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: chintz, cotton (textile), printing (process), quilting

GUSN: 11211

Accession Number: 1991.1771

Set of Curtains

It includes three pieces of red wool trimmed with floral vine patterned woven braid. All are hand sewn. 1991.1774.1 is a lozenge shaped, comprised of two wool panels with a woven trim on two sides, and two other edges frayed. 1991.1774.2 is of rectangular form, comprised of three wool panels and ...

Date: 1780-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: appliqué (technique), braiding, wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 11212

Accession Number: 1991.1774.1-3

Cloth Sample

A rectangular panel of gauzy cotton which is hemmed on three edges (one side of which is selvedge); fabric is printed with a blue grid field with brown and blue birds perched on a tree branch; there are accent colors of green.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 11213

Accession Number: 1991.1775

Stick-Up Decoy

On of a pair (1991.856) of stick-up decoys representing curlews, with an iron bill, speckled head and underbelly. It has black back and wings, and crudely carved, dowelled or incised eyes. The bottom of the bird has two holes.

Date: 1870-1910

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 11317

Accession Number: 1991.1664

Decoy

Carved and painted wooden decoy representing a common golden eye, with a: white body, black head, yellow eyes, white spot on cheeks, and a black tail and black and white stained glass pattern on wings. Has an oval neck insert, and leather straps on the bottom, affixed by nails.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 11318

Accession Number: 1991.1665

Decoy

Cork and wood carved and painted decoy representing a duck. Flattened oval cork body, with carved, incised and painted wooden head, with a yellow bill, black slit eyes. It has a black stripe along the back of its head, yellow paint at its sides, and a cork body painted black. It has been scratched t...

Date: 1915-1935

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 11319

Accession Number: 1991.1666

Decoy

Carved and painted wooden decoy representing a duck, brown with a yellow bill. Carved in ridges and fastened at the bottom front with old wire loops and swivel, with a sailor's twisted cord. Very light weight wood- balsa?

Date: 1896-1924

Maker: Mason's Decoy Factory (Maker)

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

GUSN: 11320

Accession Number: 1991.1667

Decoy

Wooden carved decoy representing a duck, with a sharp bill, a grey head and breast, black neck and white wings. A black oval painted on its back.

Date: 1870-1910

Maker: Jones, H. F. (Maker)

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

GUSN: 11321

Accession Number: 1991.1668

Decoy

A tin hollow stick-up decoy representing a seagull, the hollow forming in two parts, the molded feathers and wings. It has a hinged back and is joined to the stick with a screw and nut at the base of the bird. It is painted white with a black bill, eyes, crown of head and wings. It appears to have b...

Date: 1874-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), painting (coating), tin (metal)

GUSN: 11322

Accession Number: 1991.1669

Tea Box

The body has a deep "U" shaped front, with a flat back and hinged slant cover and scrolled handle. It is all painted in red and decorated with gold and black striping and gold foliate devices over an arched bannerette with foliate ends inscribed "Ceylon" in black. And a gold and black edged octagona...

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), tin (metal)

GUSN: 11323

Accession Number: 1991.1670

Pitcher

Of cylindrical form with a flared rolled foot and a large triangular spout with hinged cover. It has a circular, slightly domed cover and a tapering wide strap handle with thumb reset. The side is set with a rectangular strip of four panes of uncolored glass held in a tin frame. It is all painted re...

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), stenciling, tin (metal)

GUSN: 11324

Accession Number: 1991.1671

Firehat

A deep ovid crown, with a stamped gilt metal eagle's head crest on an oblong scroll embossed brim held with heavy metal wire. A shaped crest is on the front with an applied white leather "1" with a crossed lader and pole under an the word "Frank[l]in", all painted in black and red.

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: leather, metal, stamping (forming)

GUSN: 11325

Accession Number: 1991.1672

Settee

Settee. Grain-painted unidentified wood, cane. Shaped serpentine crest rail pierced with hold over shaped cane splat and two squared back posts and styles. Meets with curved and shaped arms that join at the caned seat with a serpentine seat rail with conforming pierced pendants. Turned front stretch...

Date: 1861-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, cane (plant material), painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 11326

Accession Number: 1991.1673

Painting

An oval panel, oriented horizontally with a waterfall landscape from an unusual viewpoint from underneath the ledge from which the water descends in the middle distance. Between the rocks in the base of the gorge, where the water forms a pool, stands a man fishing. (This is a poor man's 'Kindred Spi...

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), panels (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 11327

Accession Number: 1991.1674

Tavern Sign

Large round ball painted gold; iron staples for hanging.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 11328

Accession Number: 1991.1675

Shadow Box

A flat rectangular case with a flat molded cornice and a rounded, rectangular cornered glazed front revealing a scal model of a four masted ship. It is fully rigged with rolled sails and a black and red painted hull mounted on a cradle, against a light blue background. The case is raised on a molded...

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: cloth, graining, painting (coating), pine (wood), string (fiber product)

GUSN: 11329

Accession Number: 1991.1677

Ship Model

A half hull model. Painted black, with the back unpainted and it is mounted on a section of wood. Three nails protrude from the side of the hull.

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: Frost, John Orne Johnson, 1852-1928 (Maker)

Material: carving (processes), painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 11330

Accession Number: 1991.1678

Bench

The bench has a broad crest rail with a shaped top raised on ring rod turned stiles and central support over a second rectangular rail raised on turned spindles. It has a wide plank seat with a rounded front "swooping" arm rest on rod and ring turned support and two splindles. Eight thick rod and ri...

Date: 1825-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), painting (coating), pine (wood), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 11332

Accession Number: 1991.1681

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