Armchair. Ash, black paint, rush seat. Yoke-shaped crest and stiles; vasiform splat; arms on turned supports; rush seat. Ring-and-ball-turned front stretcher; swelled double rows of side stretchers; plain turned back stretcher. Rests on block-and-baluster-turned legs on Spanish feet.
Date: 1735-1770
Maker: unknown
Material: ash (wood), turning (shaping process)
GUSN: 44449
Accession Number: 1987.1447
No description
GUSN: 44451
Accession Number: 1987.1450
Candlestand. Cherry, probably maple cleat, mahoganized. Spider legs, notched pillar base; urn-turned pillar; fixed octagonal top.
Date: ca. 1821
Maker: Attributed to Noyes, Samuel S., 1785-1832 (Maker)
Material: graining, cherry (wood), maple (wood)
GUSN: 44452
Accession Number: 1987.1451
Candlestand. Cherry. Top with serpentine edges atop slender turned pillar. Rests on narrow cabriole legs with snake feet.
Date: 1800-1810
GUSN: 44453
Accession Number: 1987.1452
Impressionistic landscape with pond at right and fields at left, cloudy sky. Signed "HTG."
Date: 1895-1905
Maker: Attributed to
Material: oil paint (paint)
GUSN: 44455
Accession Number: 1987.1454
Framed lithograph portrait of Edwin Buckingham (1810-1833), rendered by Miss Lalanne of Pendleton's Lithography, Boston. Bust length view of young man facing left, wearing dark coat and waistcoat, a white shirt with high collar, and dark cravat.
Date: 1825-1830
Maker: Pendletons Lithography
Material: paper (fiber product), ink
GUSN: 44456
Accession Number: 1987.1455
Two girls, one seated, the other standing, and a large black dog pose in front of a flower garden w/ cow pastures beyond.
Date: 1870-1900
Material: albumen (egg white), gelatin silver prints, silver (metal)
GUSN: 44457
Accession Number: 1987.1456
Two women, one sitting on a stone wall, the other standing under a row of trees along the edge of a road.
Date: 1865-1890
Material: albumen (egg white)
GUSN: 44458
Accession Number: 1987.1457
GUSN: 44459
Accession Number: 1987.1458
Bust length portrait of a young man. Sitter has dark brown hair and eyes. He is wearing a black graduation gown over a white collared shirt and striped tie. Oil paint on canvas, plain wood frame.
Date: 1935
Maker: Greene, Elmer Wesley, Jr., 1907-1964 (Artist)
GUSN: 44460
Accession Number: 1987.1459
Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Cutting Buckingham, a young woman seated in a roundabout chair reading a book; screen at back. Wife of Edwin Buckingham.
Date: 1889-1896
Maker: Stuart, Mabel (Artist)
Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)
GUSN: 44461
Accession Number: 1987.1460
Bust-length portrait of a young woman in blue dress and white lace shawl. Wife of Joseph Tinker Bukingham.
Date: 1830-1840
Material: oil paint (paint), panels (wood), panel paintings (painting by form)
GUSN: 44462
Accession Number: 1987.1461
Landscape painting of Sears family home in Wayland, MA. Yellow house with large tree in front. Molded wood frame.
Date: ca. 1900
GUSN: 44463
Accession Number: 1987.1463
Material: glass (material)
GUSN: 44464
Accession Number: 1987.1464
GUSN: 44465
Accession Number: 1987.1465
GUSN: 44466
Accession Number: 1987.1466
Stoneware pitcher. Bulbous body with oversized wide flaring mouth, circular foot, and strap handle. Decorated with applied, molded Bacchanalian figures and grapevine motif. Two-tone brown glaze.
Maker: Doulton Lambeth (Manufacturer)
Material: stoneware (pottery), molding (forming)
GUSN: 44467
Accession Number: 1987.1467
Stoneware vase with green glaze, cylindrical in shape.
Date: 1898-1919
Maker: (Maker)
Material: stoneware (pottery), glazing (coating)
GUSN: 44468
Accession Number: 1987.1468
Bust-length portrait of a girl in brown patterned dress, heart stone on necklace. Ancestor of Edwin Buckingham Sears. Married to Charles Cutting.
Date: 1835-1845
GUSN: 44470
Accession Number: 1987.1473
GUSN: 44471
Accession Number: 1987.1474
Portrait of a young man, possibly Joseph Huntington Buckingham, father of Edwin Buckingham, with reddish-brown hair and long sideburns.
Date: ca. 1840
GUSN: 44473
Accession Number: 1987.1476
GUSN: 44474
Accession Number: 1933.1983
GUSN: 44476
Accession Number: 1927.1984
Earthenware pitcher with a yellow body. Single white band.
Date: 1870-1910
Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), yellowware
GUSN: 44477
Accession Number: 1931.1984
Material: wood (plant material)
GUSN: 44478
Accession Number: 1933.1984
GUSN: 44480
Accession Number: 1927.1985
Handleless w/ spiral lobed body; horizontal indented band around body at midpoint; scalloped edge; underglaze blue "rope" band around exterior edge; underglaze blue dot, center of bowl.
Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, underglazing, tin (metal)
GUSN: 44481
Accession Number: 1933.1985
GUSN: 44484
Accession Number: 1927.1986
Handleless footed cup w/ underglaze blue banding around foot and inside and outside rim; yellow flower (orchids?) w/ green and blue stamen in chain around body; one flower in center of bowl; all decoration on saucer in interior.
Date: 1785-1800
Material: painting (coating), pearlware, underglazing, earthenware, glazing (coating), tin (metal)
GUSN: 44485
Accession Number: 1933.1986
Scroll, and floral pattern
GUSN: 44489
Accession Number: 1927.1987
Blue transfer-printed pearlware saucer. Floral border surrounds a central nature scene.
Date: 1820-1830
Material: earthenware, transfer printing, glazing (coating)
GUSN: 44491
Accession Number: 1933.1987
Material: photographs
GUSN: 44510
Accession Number: 21.1988
GUSN: 44518
Accession Number: 1927.1988
Earthenware dining hall plate with blue transfer-printed clover-and-dagger border and "Wellesley" on looped ribbon in center of plate.
Date: 1891-1910
Maker: George L. Ashworth & Bros. (Maker)
Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), ironstone (pottery), transfer printing
GUSN: 44519
Accession Number: 1933.1988
Easy chair. Barrell-back, underconstruction revealed. Straight seat rail and legs.
Material: mahogany (wood), maple (wood), upholstering
GUSN: 44524
Accession Number: 1970.1317
Tea cup and saucer with spiral reeded bodies and scalloped edges; pink dot latticework band and feather border; rosebud spray surrounded by pink and green garland chain; handleless cup; deep sided saucer.
Date: 1800-1820
Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), painting (coating), pearlware
GUSN: 44532
Accession Number: 1958.129AB
Pearlware coffeepot with brown and yellow bands surround the rim and cover. Pattern of berry clusters adorn body and cover. Round finial. Brown accents on finial, handle, and spout.
Date: 1790-1810
Material: pearlware, enameling, glazing (coating)
GUSN: 44533
Accession Number: 1958.141AB
Earthenware saltcellar. Hand-painted floral design. Red and gold bands around the rim.
Material: earthenware
GUSN: 44534
Accession Number: 1958.622
GUSN: 44535
Accession Number: 1958.519
Square, green-tinted, cathedral-style glass pickle jar with gothic panels.
Material: glass (material), blown glass
GUSN: 44536
Accession Number: 1958.520
Earthenware footed saltcellar. Hand-painted floral design with blue accents.
GUSN: 44537
Accession Number: 1958.624
Porcelain saltcellar. Faceted body. Floral design with red dots around the rim.
Material: porcelain
GUSN: 44538
Accession Number: 1958.625
GUSN: 44539
Accession Number: 1958.522
Porcelain saltcellar. Octagonal shape. Gilt rim with a hand-painted flower.
Date: 1891
Maker: Haviland, Charles Field, 1878-1891
GUSN: 44540
Accession Number: 1958.626
Square, green glass, cathedral-style bottle with gothic panels.
GUSN: 44541
Accession Number: 1958.523
Porcelain footed saltcellar. Floral design with gold accents.
GUSN: 44542
Accession Number: 1958.627
GUSN: 44543
Accession Number: 1958.524
GUSN: 44544
Accession Number: 1958.628
Pearlware teapot. Blue accents on handle, spout, rim, body, cover, and base. Red floral chain on body and cover. Lion molded finial.
Date: 1810-1830
Material: pearlware, enameling, hand-painted
GUSN: 44747
Accession Number: 1958.512
Pressed glass saltcellar. Rectangular with a broad rim. Block diamond pattern.
GUSN: 44748
Accession Number: 1958.748