Historic New England

Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Large-scale, baroque, floral pattern with scrolling foliage and berries printed to look like cut velvet. Printed in two shades of crimson on a red ground.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103499

Accession Number: 2008.6.21

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Woven cross-hatch pattern in white on a dark gray ground.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103500

Accession Number: 2008.6.22

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Urn with floral bouquet with floral trails, swags and scrolling foliage. Printed in two pinks, mauve, yellow, brown, two blues, and three greens on a cream grosgrain ground.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103501

Accession Number: 2008.6.23

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Mixed flower bunches with scrolling foliage and swags. Printed in beige, peach, brown, crimson, and four greens on a glossy cream ground.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103502

Accession Number: 2008.6.24

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Vertical stripes. Stylized flowers repeat vertically on stripes which alternate with stripes bearing an egg and dart pattern. Printed in white and gold on a glossy cream ground.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103503

Accession Number: 2008.6.25

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Bouquets of mixed flowers. Printed in three greens, two pinks, two yellows, and brown on a white background.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103504

Accession Number: 2008.6.26

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Floral bouquets over creeping branches covered in small flowers. Printed in two pinks, two purples, two browns, three greens and white on a green ground imitating grosgrain.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103505

Accession Number: 2008.6.27

Wallpaper Sample

Unused wallpaper sample. Design consisting of dice, dominoes, playing cards, hearts, spades, diamonds, and clubs. Block printed in red, black, white, blue, tan, and gold on a dark brown ground.

Date: 1910-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 103506

Accession Number: 2008.6.28

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Large flowers and foliate over a stylized floral damask pattern. Imitates a textile. Printed in pink, crimson, mauve, peach, white, yellow, and four greens on a beige background.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103507

Accession Number: 2008.6.29

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Large floral of poppies and chrysanthemums. Imitates a textile. Printed in red, brown, pink, white, mauve, blue, and two greens on a tan ground.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103508

Accession Number: 2008.6.30

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Stylized flowers with scrolling foliage. Block-printed in peach, yellow, brown, green and blue on an off-white ground.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 103509

Accession Number: 2008.6.31

Unused wallpaper sample. Repeating green parrots in two different poses, one bent over with wings splayed, the other standing straight on with wings splayed, among twisted vines of pomegranates, all on striped embossed gold ground. British paper "Cockatoo and Pomegranate" designed by Walter Crane an...

Date: 1899

Maker: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 (Designer) Probably Jeffrey & Co.

GUSN: 103510

Accession Number: 2008.6.32

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Plain green paper.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103511

Accession Number: 2008.6.33

Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Large abstract poppy flowers interspersed among large leaves. Printed in red outline on tan ground.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103512

Accession Number: 2008.6.34

Wallpaper Fragment

Unused sample. Saint George and Saint Patrick in gold on horseback each holding a banner both within scrolled frames with a dark red flocked background, scrolling flocked vines of clovers and thistles in between. Block-printed in gold, flocked in dark red on a red ground.

Date: 1897

Maker: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 (Designer) Jeffrey & Co (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103513

Accession Number: 2008.6.35

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Bunches of roses and chrysanthemums with trailing twisted ribbon. Printed in three pinks, three yellows, two greens and two blues on a white grosgrain ground.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103514

Accession Number: 2008.6.36

Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Large open roses and buds on stems with leaves. Printed in pink, dark red, green and brown on a white ground.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103515

Accession Number: 2008.6.37

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Pillar and arch design with a figural group in center of three Classically dressed women. Printed in black and white on a gray ground

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103516

Accession Number: 2008.6.38

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Symmetrical floral and urn design in light and dark grey in a diaper pattern on a pink ground with vertical white stripes.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103517

Accession Number: 2008.6.39

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Abstract baroque floral and scroll design in mauve, pink, and cream on a deep red ground.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103518

Accession Number: 2008.6.40

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Imitation wood grain paneling. Printed in brown on a tan ground. Oak.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103519

Accession Number: 2008.6.41

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Moire and satin stripe in green and embossed with grosgrain ribbon texture.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103520

Accession Number: 2008.6.42

Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Stripes of textured leaf chains within straight leaf borders, ground imitates grosgrain. Paper is natural tan color.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103521

Accession Number: 2008.6.43

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Bouquets of green flowers within foliate and scroll edged elliptical cartouches with green and tan floral swags below divided by rows of dart and dash stripes on beige ground. Printed in taupe, green, white and gold on beige ground.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103522

Accession Number: 2008.6.44

Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Repeating grid of stylized flowers within diapered lozenges and framed by foliate scrolls in imitation of damask. Printed in white on a white ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103523

Accession Number: 2008.6.45

Wallpaper Border

Unused border. Scrolling chains of roses and flowers with stylized acanthus scrolls on a striped ground. Printed in three blues, three greens and brown on a tan ground.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: W. Cambell & Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103524

Accession Number: 2008.6.46

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Repeating pattern of groups of trees and bushes with scrolling vines in between, on a textured natural ground. Printed in three browns, black, orange, yellow, green and blue on a natural ground.

Date: 1935-1950

Maker: United Wallpaper Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103525

Accession Number: 2008.6.47

Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Scrolling flowers, vines and leaves in imitation of silk damask. Printed in white on a white ground.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: Zuber et Cie (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103526

Accession Number: 2008.6.48

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Two cherubs holding a basket aloft with a goat in between, scrolling floral ground. Printed in white and four shades of brown.

Date: 1930-1950

Maker: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 (Designer)

GUSN: 103527

Accession Number: 2008.6.49

Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Sprays of flowers in a diaper pattern connected with foliate scrolls and swags of branches with berries. Printed in four greens, three pinks and grey on a natural paper ground.

Date: 1880-1950

Maker: Halbert (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103528

Accession Number: 2008.6.50

Unused Wallpaper Sample

Unused sample. Imitating toile fabric with five different repeating landscape scenes with figures including a man by his horse, a man riding a horse, a man walking, a man on a horse talking to a woman, and a stag lying beneath a tree. Printed in red on a natural ground.

Date: 1930-1950

Maker: Becker, Smith & Page, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103529

Accession Number: 2008.6.51

Plate

One of a set of ten. Blue transfer-printed pearlware plate. Outer fruit and floral border. Inner foliate chain border. Centrally located scene depicting Pains Hill in Surrey.

Date: 1800-1836

Maker: Hall, Ralph

Material: pearlware, ceramic glaze, transfer printing

GUSN: 174915

Accession Number: 1993.818.7

Plate

One of a set of ten. Blue transfer-printed pearlware plate. Outer fruit and floral border. Inner foliate chain border. Centrally located scene depicting Pains Hill in Surrey.

Date: 1800-1836

Maker: Hall, Ralph

Material: pearlware, ceramic glaze, transfer printing

GUSN: 174916

Accession Number: 1993.818.8

Plate

One of a set of ten. Blue transfer-printed pearlware plate. Outer fruit and floral border. Inner foliate chain border. Centrally located scene depicting Pains Hill in Surrey.

Date: 1800-1836

Maker: Hall, Ralph

Material: pearlware, ceramic glaze, transfer printing

GUSN: 174917

Accession Number: 1993.818.9

Plate

One of a set of ten. Blue transfer-printed pearlware plate. Outer fruit and floral border. Inner foliate chain border. Centrally located scene depicting Pains Hill in Surrey.

Date: 1800-1836

Maker: unknown

Material: pearlware, ceramic glaze, transfer printing

GUSN: 174918

Accession Number: 1993.818.10

Bugle

Brass toy bugle with engraving and scrollwork on mouthpiece

Date: 1900-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 174922

Accession Number: 1993.839

Victrola

Tabletop victrola in paneled mahogany case with bun feet. Brass arm and green felt covered turntable. The canted lid opens on a brass hinges and can be propped up with a brass catch. Inside the top of the lid is an RCA Victor label that consists of "Nipper" listening to his master's voice from a Vic...

Date: 1910

Maker: Victor Talking Machine Company (Manufacturer)

Material: mahogany (wood), brass (alloy), felt (textile)

GUSN: 174929

Accession Number: 2006.44.696

Pitcher

Blue transfer-printed pearlware pitcher with an applied ear-shaped handle. Floral border around the interior and exterior of the spout and rim. Pastoral scenes adorn the exterior body.

Date: 1815-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze, transfer printing

GUSN: 174938

Accession Number: 1993.816

Plant stand

Carved teak plant stand with scalloped top with a beaded border that surrounds a round soapstone insert, which sits atop of an intricatively carved pierced apron that consists of vines and open and closed five petaled flowers. The stand is supported by five pierced legs ending in hooved feet. A five...

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: teak (wood), soapstone (metamorphic rock)

GUSN: 174940

Accession Number: 2006.44.698

Reclining Figure

Reclining Figure, bronze sculpture by Henry Moore (1898-1986), one of edition of 7.

Date: 1945

Maker: Moore, Henry, 1898-1986 (Sculptor)

Material: bronze (metal)

GUSN: 174941

Accession Number: 2009.21.1

Sofa

Mahogany sofa with scrolled arms and carved double eagle crests and carved paw feet, upholstered in gold fabric [faded to gold, used to be blue].

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 174942

Accession Number: 2006.44.699

Ship "Union" of Salem

Framed watercolor painting of a ship at sea. The image of the ship "Union" fills most of the picture, the bow faces the viewer and the stern is pointed toward the left half of the picture, an American flag is flying from the bow. In the background is another ship, a harbor with a small city, and a m...

Date: 1902

Maker: Macpherson, M (Copyist)

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

GUSN: 174951

Accession Number: 2006.44.740

Sauce dish

Date: 1815-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 174955

Accession Number: 1993.597

Sauce Dish Tray

Large, diamond-shaped, earthenware tray with blue transfer-printed pastoral scene. Scene depicts men in small boats on a calm river. A wooden bridge and thatched-roof cottage is in the mid-ground and fields with sheep and the tower of a building in the distance. Floral borders on raised interior an...

Date: 1815-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing, pearlware

GUSN: 174956

Accession Number: 1993.597.1

Sauce dish

Small, diamond-shaped earthenware dish with blue transfer-printed pattern and a small handle at one corner. Transfer-printed scene depicts men in small boats on a calm river. A wooden bridge and thatched-roof cottage is in the mid-ground, fields with sheep and the tower of a building in the distanc...

Date: 1815-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing, pearlware

GUSN: 174957

Accession Number: 1993.597.2

Sauce dish

Small, diamond-shaped earthenware dish with blue transfer-printed pattern and a small handle at one corner. Transfer-printed scene depicts men in small boats on a calm river. A wooden bridge and thatched-roof cottage is in the mid-ground, fields with sheep and the tower of a building in the distanc...

Date: 1815-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing, pearlware

GUSN: 174959

Accession Number: 1993.597.4

Sauce dish

Small, diamond-shaped earthenware dish with blue transfer-printed pattern and a small handle at one corner. Transfer-printed scene depicts men in small boats on a calm river. A wooden bridge and thatched-roof cottage is in the mid-ground, fields with sheep and the tower of a building in the distanc...

Date: 1815-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing, pearlware

GUSN: 174960

Accession Number: 1993.597.5

Ship at Sea

Framed oil painting of a ship at sea. Ship with six unfurled sails catching wind. Three figures are seen aboard. There is one red pennant on the right mast and the ship is heading left. There are two seagulls to the left and two ships in the distance to the right.

Date: 1877

Maker: Norton, William Edward, 1843-1916 (Artist)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 174961

Accession Number: 2006.44.1060

Prayer rug

Woven wool prayer rug with center panel of mult-colored tarantulas with small rosettes scattered between them. The mihrab (prayer arch) is flanked by two combs. The border consists of various rosettes of different colors. The edges are bound in olive green. It has a very short pile.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 174962

Accession Number: 2006.44.457

Tureen

Blue transfer-printed pearlware tureen. Two lion head molded handles. Floral bands surround the inner rim, base, and cover. Pastoral scene adorns the interior base, exterior body, and cover. Lion head molded finial adorns the cover.

Date: 1815-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, ceramic glaze, transfer printing

GUSN: 174963

Accession Number: 1993.598.1AB

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