Historic New England

Mixing Bowl

Ceramic bowl with slightly sloped sides, ribbed decoration under rim, and cocentric rings inside bottom. Sunflower yellow glaze. Fiesta mixing bowl #4.

Date: 1937-1938

Maker: Homer Laughlin China Company (Manufacturer)

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 225037

Accession Number: 2006.44.3435

Coffeepot

Tall, pear-shaped pewter coffeepot with ribbed body on stepped foot. Scrolling handle with thumb rest. S-shaped spout. Domed, hinged lid with knop.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: Richardson, George (Pewterer)

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin (metal), tin alloy

GUSN: 225038

Accession Number: 2009.59.1

Cream Pitcher

Small, footed pewter cream pitcher; wide mid-section; S-shaped handle; flat spout; octagonal foot.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: Reed & Barton (Pewterer)

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin (metal), tin alloy

GUSN: 225039

Accession Number: 2009.60.1

Candlestick

Small, acorn-shaped, footed pewter candlestick; foot is concave with a convex brim.

Maker: unknown

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin (metal), tin alloy

GUSN: 225040

Accession Number: 2009.61.1

Candlesticks

Pair of tall, pewter candlesticks; acorn-shaped candle cup and bobeche; six-sided undulating base; six knobs of various sizes along stem.

Maker: unknown

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin (metal), tin alloy

GUSN: 225041

Accession Number: 2009.62.1

Vase

Ceramic vase with footed base and straight sides, slightly flared rim. Pale green glaze. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark on bottom.

Maker: Phillips, Nannie Jencks (Borden), 1877-1963 (Maker)

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 225042

Accession Number: 2006.44.3436

Mustard Pot

Pewter mustard pot (A) with blue ceramic liner (B). Cup-shaped body on stemmed foot; loop handle; and domed, hinged lid with thumb handle and spoon indent.

Maker: unknown

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin (metal), tin alloy, ceramic (material), glaze

GUSN: 225043

Accession Number: 2009.63.1AB

Bowl

Ceramic bowl with footed base and slightly sloped sides. Yellow exterior glaze and rust red interior glaze. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark on bottom.

Maker: Phillips, Nannie Jencks (Borden), 1877-1963 (Maker)

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 225044

Accession Number: 2006.44.3437

Cup

Small, footed, bell-shaped pewter vase.

Maker: unknown

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin (metal), tin alloy

GUSN: 225046

Accession Number: 2009.64.1

Set of Communion Canns

Four tulip-shaped communion canns; band foot; S-shaped handle.

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: Bogar Curtis & Co. (Maker)

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin (metal), tin alloy

GUSN: 225051

Accession Number: 1976.94.1

Chair

Wooden chair with spindle back. Double stretchers between legs, rounded feet. Painted white.

Date: 1897-1921

Maker: Heywood-Wakefield Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 225059

Accession Number: 2006.44.3438

Pair of Canns

Pair of tulip-shaped pewter canns with band foot and S-shaped handle.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: Townsend & Compton (Maker)

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin (metal), tin alloy

GUSN: 225060

Accession Number: 1976.95.1

Ceramic garden seat. Pedestal shaped with polychrome decoration. Column is decorated with a city skyline, man riding a horse, and bulls in a field. Top of seat decorated with a yellow bull. Geometric and floral borders. Hollow base.

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 225101

Accession Number: 2006.44.3439

Pitcher

Metal pitcher with white enamel body, blue handle and rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, enamel (fused coating)

GUSN: 225108

Accession Number: 2006.44.3440

Tumbler

Pair of fluted red glass tumblers with frosted, etched folate and grape cluster designs and frosted lip.

Date: 1818-1888

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), etching (corroding)

GUSN: 225136

Accession Number: 1990.169.3-.4

Two Decanters

A pair of cut red faceted decanters [a] with stoppers [b]. Etched foliate and grape design. Flat octagonal stopper.

Date: 1818-1888

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), ceramic glaze

GUSN: 225137

Accession Number: 1990.169.1-2

Vase

Bulbous glass vase with rounded points of glass (four from top to bottom in eight vertical lines around the body). Scalloped edge on mouth. White and green horizontal wavy lines. Gold luster inside.

Date: 1893-1910

Maker: Union Glass Company (Somerville, Mass.) (Maker)

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 225138

Accession Number: 1943.11

Bowl

Glass footed bowl. Iridescent apricot/gold colored raised bowl on stem with circular foot and wide, shallow lip.

Date: 1893-1910

Maker: Union Glass Company (Somerville, Mass.) (Maker)

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 225139

Accession Number: 1943.27

Water Bottle

Yellow satin glass water bottle with ombre color scheme, white at base with yellow toward top. Circular tapered foot with spherical body tapering to long skinny neck sharply flaring to wide flat lip. White interior with zig-zag pattern on exterior.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 225141

Accession Number: 1970.233

Wine Glass

Red-stained wine glass with etched frosted scene of a stag in the forest. Colorless stem and octagonal base with two red bands.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), stained glass (material)

GUSN: 225142

Accession Number: 1993.396

Bowl

Colorless, pressed glass bowl with central flower motif and alternating pattern of cross-hatching and ridges resembling leaves. Scalloped rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: pressed glass, glass (material)

GUSN: 225144

Accession Number: 1993.416

Vase

Glass vase with iridescent gold and green "tulip pattern" design. "KEW BLAS" on bottom.

Maker: Union Glass Company (Somerville, Mass.) (Maker)

GUSN: 225146

Accession Number: 1943.3

Relish Dishes

Set of six round relish dishes, three with blue spiraling stripe with white edges and three with white spiraling stripes with blue edges.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 225148

Accession Number: 1993.398.1-.6

Tall Case Clock

Basswood, designed with leaf shaped scroll work. A central medallion depicting John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. PR side top is an hour glass . PR side middle is a windmill house. PL side top hour glass, PL side middle windmill with a small house in the front of it.

Date: ca. 1904

Maker: unknown

Material: pyrography

GUSN: 223690

Accession Number: 2004.37.1

Fire extinguisher

Tall and cylindrical fire extinguisher with a large turn handle at the top. On the right side is a rubber hose with a nozzle at the end.

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, rubber (material)

GUSN: 223691

Accession Number: 2006.44.2033

Washboard

Large washboard. The wooden frame bears an inscription on the back, now faded. It frames a ridged metal board

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 223692

Accession Number: 2006.44.2012

Mixing bowl

Large yelloware mixing bowl with white band around top.

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 223693

Accession Number: 2006.44.1638

Bellows

Wooden bellows done with pyrographic decoration. Front- a blond women in profile with hair in low loose bun. Red background designed to look like cracks intentional missing pieces. Sunburst patterns surround figure and handle on front. Back is solid color brown with striations. Leather air pouch and...

Date: 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), leather

GUSN: 223694

Accession Number: 2004.37.2

Bellows

Wooden bellows done with pyrographic decoration. The decoration is a foliate design which is painted in shades of greens and red. Leather air pouch and around the edges is leather.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), pyrography

GUSN: 223695

Accession Number: 2004.37.3

Soap box

Wooden soap box, made of nailed coarse planks. It bears the mention "IVORY" in bold characters on one its side.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 223696

Accession Number: 2006.44.2040

Lady finger pan

Lady finger baking pan with six individual molds, each with fluted ends.

Maker: unknown

Material: metal

GUSN: 223697

Accession Number: 2006.44.1637

Pyrography kit

Outer box, dovetail joints. Top has metal handle. Pointsettias flower and leaves. Front the metal clasp to secure opening. Top portion of metal clasp is broken on the PR side, big pointsettia flower in center of front with leaves branching out. PR side leaves and wilted flower. No design on two met...

Maker: Flemish Art Co. (Maker)

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 223699

Accession Number: 2004.37.4

Soap box

Wooden soap box with a heraldic crowned lion stamped on one of its sides.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 223701

Accession Number: 2006.44.2039

Mixing bowl

Small white mixing bowl with crackle glaze.

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 223702

Accession Number: 2006.44.1639

Laundry stove

Iron laundry stove. It stands on four short legs. Each leg has a heart design on it and the base that the legs connect to is round with pinched in sides. Pear shaped body with eight prongs to hold irons against the heat of the stove. At the top and bottom are doors. The top surface allows for two se...

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 223709

Accession Number: 2006.44.2023

Pyrography Kit

Outer box: cherry branches. Front design is not complete the image was stamped on the top and sides and then the person worked on the outline. Hinges on the front will fold down giving easier access. Inside: Oval can filled wiht absorbant material to use with benzine; rubber hand bulb, cork point ha...

Maker: Flemish Art Co. (Maker)

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 223710

Accession Number: 2004.37.5

Pyrography Kit

Outside box: dovetail joints, top completed wood burn, burnches of cherries on branches. Front stamped pattern visible, started background shading, metal upward u-shaped latch. PR side stamped cherry pattern visible no attempt to finish. Back plain wiht two hinges for top. PL side stamped cherry pat...

Maker: Flemish Art Co. (Maker)

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 223711

Accession Number: 2004.37.6

Basket

Large wide wicker basket. It has one lid and two handles at the end. At the frond edge of the lid are two rings sticking out that begs can be put through to hold the lid in placep

Maker: unknown

Material: wicker

GUSN: 223712

Accession Number: 2006.44.2007

Ironing board

Sleeve ironing board. Narrow wooden ironing board on footed base.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), cotton (textile), metal

GUSN: 223713

Accession Number: 2006.44.2002

Basket

Large wicker backet. There are two handles on the sides and one handle has a rope hanging down from it.

Maker: unknown

Material: wicker

GUSN: 223715

Accession Number: 2006.44.2008

Clothes wringer

Clothes wringer with a wooden bar at top and two spindles at the ends that are in the shape of key heads. There is a handle to crank and that turns the two rollers. On the right side is a ledge. Underneath the ledge are two clamps on each end.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 223716

Accession Number: 2006.44.2014

Pyrography Kit, "Pyrex"

A box with pyrographic decoration has tools for making pyrographic designs. This one is form the "pyrex". There are ten objects inside. Pyro benzine bottle empty - Favor, Rund & Co., Boston; NY; Chicago -Brown Pyrography Art stain with instruction label peeling, wax stopper on top- green pyrography ...

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 223860

Accession Number: 2004.37.7

Clothes wringer

Clothes wringer with a wooden bar at top and two spindles at the ends that are in the shape of key heads. There is a handle to crank and that turns the two rollers. On the right side is a ledge. Underneath the ledge are two clamps on each end.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 223861

Accession Number: 2006.44.2017

Drying rack

Small wooden drying rack.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 223862

Accession Number: 2006.44.2009

Soap saver

Soap saver with lid. The back edge is flat and the rest of it arches away from it. There is a lid that has a ring on the edge for opening the lid.

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 223863

Accession Number: 2006.44.2022

Drying rack

Large wooden drying rack.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 223864

Accession Number: 2006.44.2019

Fireplace tile

Square earthenware tile. Painted decoration divides surface of tile into nine squares with flowers and vines within. Painted in green, black, and purple on a cream ground.

Date: ca. 1870

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 223870

Accession Number: 2009.47

Fireplace tile

Square fireplace tile with polychrome glaze and hand painted central floral design in blue, yellow and green. Fleur-de-lis decoration in the corners. Probably Dutch.

Date: ca. 1700

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 224564

Accession Number: 2009.48

Pyro-Ceramic Art Magazine

This magazine is devoted to information on wood burning, china painting, wood carving, home decoration. Brown paper cover, twenty-four pages and brown page of advertisements at back. Backside of front cover all advertisemetns, entire back cover also advertisements. Bound by staples.

Maker: G. Harry Abbott (Publisher)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 224568

Accession Number: 2004.37.8

Shelf

Wooden shelf, painted in black, with fours narrow shelves

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), paint (coating)

GUSN: 224573

Accession Number: 2006.44.2015

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