Historic New England

Wallpaper

Unused sample. All over field of flowers and stylized scrolling foliage ornamented with metallic gold stripes and dots.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175835

Accession Number: 1985.26.206

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wide plain pink stripe with liquid mica alternating with two pinks moire design stripe. Printed on a scrolled foliage embossed paper.

Date: 1895-1910

Maker: Carey Brothers (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 175836

Accession Number: 1985.26.108

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Large scale floral (thistle?) with scrolling leaves. Printed in two shades of green, tan and brown and outlined in maroon on a green ingrain paper.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175837

Accession Number: 1985.26.102

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Stylized floral element in blues and greens framed by serpentine foliage on a diapered field and beige window pane checked embossed ground. Overprinted with black hatchworks.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175838

Accession Number: 1985.26.114

Unused sample. Continuous rows of knotted blue ribbons with bouquets of roses. Bordered by wide yellow stripe edged with a Greek key border. Printed in two blues, two yellows, tan, two pinks, red and two greens on a beige ground. Straight match.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175839

Accession Number: 1985.26.100

Wallpaper

Unused sample of Art Nouveau paper consisting of tulips with swirling leaves. Printed in red, green, brown and black on a blue ground. Drop repeat.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175840

Accession Number: 1985.26.112

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Repeating foliated fleur-de-lys in beige framed by alternating rows of maroon and ivory mouchette. Straight match.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175841

Accession Number: 1985.26.196

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Large bouquets of roses and rose bud sprigs against a field of alternating liquid mica and blue moire stripes. Printed in two greens, three pinks, red, two ochres, blue and white on an embossed paper. Straight match.

Date: 1895-1910

Maker: Frederick Beck & Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 175842

Accession Number: 1985.26.103

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Continuous light and dark green narrow stripes. Straight match.

Date: 1895-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175843

Accession Number: 1985.26.107

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Light green cross hatching on a green ground overprinted with black serpentine screen, perhaps to imitate grass cloth? Straight match.

Date: 1895-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175844

Accession Number: 1985.26.106

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Narrow yellow and tan stripes flanked by green liquid mica stripes and continuous row of cream colored roses. Printed on a green ground and floral embossed paper. Straight match.

Date: 1895-1910

Maker: Frederick Beck & Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 175845

Accession Number: 1985.26.109

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Poppy blossoms enclosed within serpentine scrolling foliage. Printed in red, fuschia and crimson on red ingrain paper. Straight match.

Date: 1895-1910

Maker: G.W.P. Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 175846

Accession Number: 1985.26.110

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Pink cross hatching on a red ground overprinted with purple serpentine grid perhaps in imitation of grass cloth. Straight match.

Date: 1895-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175847

Accession Number: 1985.26.105

Wallpaper

Two attached borders of leaves and thistles curled around a branch. Printed in two browns, tan echre, and crimson flock on a varnished sand ground. Printed height--3-1\2, entered in printed width box as "3-1\2h." LP

Date: 1875-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175848

Accession Number: 1985.26.127

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Imitation silk moire printed in white liquid mica on a beige ground.

Date: 1895-1910

Maker: Frederick Beck & Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 175849

Accession Number: 1985.26.115

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Gilt neo-grec floral element draped with bead and connected by chain swags. Printed on beige ground.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175850

Accession Number: 1985.26.116

Wallpaper

Border of large roses with a top and bottom band of squares. Printed in pastels, pink, two greens, brown, grey, yellow, gold, and light brown.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175851

Accession Number: 1985.26.118

Wallpaper

Border with a meandering vine with large leaves and a variety of flowers. Top and bottom band of a woven band made of crosses, rectangles, and squares. PRinted in gold and black on a pinkish-red ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175852

Accession Number: 1985.26.119

Wallpaper

Scrolling foliage and large flowers with a top and bottom band of bell flowers. Printed in burgundy, mustard, two greens, brown, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175853

Accession Number: 1985.26.120

Wallpaper

Scrolling foliage with large flowers and berries on vene (?). Top and bottom band of stylized floral motifs and cablings. Printed in two pinks, yellow, brown, and pale olive on a grey-brown ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175854

Accession Number: 1985.26.122

Wallpaper

Border with a continuous undulating floral vine with a fan and retangular element with fretwork. Top and bottom band of ogees. Printed teal, light red, red, two greens.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175855

Accession Number: 1985.26.123

Wallpaper

Floral border with daisies and carnations. Bottom band of lunettes with daisies and carnations. Bottom band of lunettes with a stylized small flower inside. Printed in blue, white, yellow, red, pink, black, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175856

Accession Number: 1985.26.124

Wallpaper

Architectural moldings including bead and reel, modillions, rosettes, and dentils. Printed in grisialle (white and greys) with tan.

Date: 1865-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175857

Accession Number: 1985.26.125

Wallpaper

Border of connected continuous circles. Inside a rope in the circular shape with a daisy in the center. Thin vertical lines over pattern. Printed in red and two mauves, two greens, two blues, ochre,, grey, and taupe, on a beige ground.

Date: 1880-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175858

Accession Number: 1985.26.126

Wallpaper

Border with stylized upright flowers. Framed by jagged yet linear lines and accured flowering branch. Painted in dark fushia, teal, dark grey, 2 browns, and gold on a dark grey ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175859

Accession Number: 1985.26.128

Wallpaper

Border of continuous scrolling foliage with daffodils, roses or peonies. Top and bottom band of a single row of scales. Printed in two reds, yellow, two browns, tan, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175860

Accession Number: 1985.26.130

Wallpaper

Large floral vine with petals with scalloped edges. Top and bottom bands of stylized palmettes. Painted in pale blue, pink, cream, gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175861

Accession Number: 1985.26.131

Wallpaper

A meandering rose vine with butterflies on a background of fret work and stylized shell forms. Printed in three pinks, brown, three greens, silver, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175862

Accession Number: 1985.26.132

Wallpaper

A border of stylized flowers in geometric pots, pine motifs and a top and bottom band of rosettes in a diaper pattern. Printed in blue, green, red, brown, gold, and soft orange.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175863

Accession Number: 1985.26.134

Wallpaper

Floral border with a top and bottom band of a diaper pattern with stylized flowers. Printed in blue, two browns, gold, beige, taupe, and burgundy flock on a yellow-beige ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175864

Accession Number: 1985.26.135

Wallpaper

Naturalistic border with swallows with tree blossoms printed in two pinks, gold, beige, brown, two blues, and two blues on brown ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175865

Accession Number: 1985.26.136

Club

Long, heavy, cylindrical wooden war club, or povai, covered with carved panels containing small zig-zag patterns, very likely from Tonga but possibly from Samoa or Fiji. Only the handle end and top of the club are unadorned. The shape of the club tapers from narrower at the handle to wider at the h...

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 174813

Accession Number: 2006.44.1488

Dessert Bowls

Dessert bowl or sherbet made of pressed clear glass in Ashburton type design. Shallow bowl decorated with six large facets. Short squat stem opens to wide foot with six scallops around edge.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 174814

Accession Number: 1993.556.1

Dessert Bowls

Dessert bowl or sherbet made of pressed clear glass in Ashburton type design. Shallow bowl decorated with six large facets. Short squat stem opens to wide foot with six scallops around edge.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 174815

Accession Number: 1993.556.2

Dessert Bowls

Dessert bowl or sherbet made of pressed clear glass in Ashburton type design. Shallow bowl decorated with six large facets. Short squat stem opens to wide foot with six scallops around edge.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 174816

Accession Number: 1993.556.3

Dessert Bowls

Dessert bowl or sherbet made of pressed clear glass in Ashburton type design. Shallow bowl decorated with six large facets. Short squat stem opens to wide foot with six scallops around edge.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 174817

Accession Number: 1993.556.4

Dessert Bowls

Dessert bowl or sherbet made of pressed clear glass in Ashburton type design. Shallow bowl decorated with six large facets. Short squat stem opens to wide foot with six scallops around edge.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 174818

Accession Number: 1993.556.5

Dessert Bowls

Dessert bowl or sherbet made of pressed clear glass in Ashburton type design. Shallow bowl decorated with six large facets. Short squat stem opens to wide foot with six scallops around edge.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 174819

Accession Number: 1993.556.6

Club

Cylindrical wood club probably from Tonga, with carved panels enclosing a zig-zag pattern on all surfaces. There is a thin incised line curving around the club from the mid-point to the head. On the head end of the club, panels are interspersed with carved guns, men holding guns or gun-shapes, one ...

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 174820

Accession Number: 2006.44.1487

Cordial glass

Four pressed glass cordials in Ashburton-type design. Glasses with faceted bowls. Facets with scalloping at top of facet. Stem with molded ring. Circular base. Flared rim.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: pressed glass, glass (material)

GUSN: 174821

Accession Number: 1993.554

Cordial glass

Pressed glass cordial in Ashburton-type design. Glasses with faceted bowls. Facets with scalloping at top of facet. Stem with molded ring. Circular base. Flared rim.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 174822

Accession Number: 1993.554.1

Cordial glass

Pressed glass cordial in Ashburton-type design. Glasses with faceted bowls. Facets with scalloping at top of facet. Stem with molded ring. Circular base. Flared rim.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 174823

Accession Number: 1993.554.2

Cordial glass

Pressed glass cordial in Ashburton-type design. Glasses with faceted bowls. Facets with scalloping at top of facet. Stem with molded ring. Circular base. Flared rim.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 174824

Accession Number: 1993.554.3

Kava bowl

Massive round kava bowl with four round legs and a hanging bracket, carved from one piece of wood. From Fiiji or Tonga. The inside of the bowl is smooth and polished. Kava is a drink used throughout the Pacific Islands for sacred, ceremonial and social purposes. It is refered to as yaqona in Fiji.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 174825

Accession Number: 2006.44.2618

Cordial glass

Pressed glass cordial in Ashburton-type design. Glasses with faceted bowls. Facets with scalloping at top of facet. Stem with molded ring. Circular base. Flared rim.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 174826

Accession Number: 1993.554.4

Goblet

Goblet made of clear pressed glass in Ashburton-type design. Bowl decorated with two rows of squat facets. Six sided stems flares outward at bottom, attached to plain circular foot. Seams visible on foot. All have same design and shape. Measurements, stems, and sharpness of edges vary slightlyy betw...

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 174827

Accession Number: 1993.550

Goblet

Goblet made of clear pressed glass in Ashburton-type design. Bowl decorated with two rows of squat facets. Six sided stems flares outward at bottom, attached to plain circular foot. Seams visible on foot. All have same design and shape. Measurements, stems, and sharpness of edges vary slightlyy betw...

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: pressed glass, blown glass, glass (material)

GUSN: 174828

Accession Number: 1993.550.1

Goblet

Goblet made of clear pressed glass in Ashburton-type design. Bowl decorated with two rows of squat facets. Six sided stems flares outward at bottom, attached to plain circular foot. Seams visible on foot. All have same design and shape. Measurements, stems, and sharpness of edges vary slightlyy betw...

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: pressed glass, blown glass, glass (material)

GUSN: 174829

Accession Number: 1993.550.2

Goblet

Goblet made of clear pressed glass in Ashburton-type design. Bowl decorated with two rows of squat facets. Six sided stems flares outward at bottom, attached to plain circular foot. Seams visible on foot. All have same design and shape. Measurements, stems, and sharpness of edges vary slightlyy betw...

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: pressed glass, blown glass, glass (material)

GUSN: 174830

Accession Number: 1993.550.3

Goblet

Goblet made of clear pressed glass in Ashburton-type design. Bowl decorated with two rows of squat facets. Six sided stems flares outward at bottom, attached to plain circular foot. Seams visible on foot. All have same design and shape. Measurements, stems, and sharpness of edges vary slightlyy betw...

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: pressed glass, blown glass, glass (material)

GUSN: 174831

Accession Number: 1993.550.4

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