Historic New England

Miniature Bottle with Stopper

Miniature glass bottle with cork stopper. Cylindrical shape with tapered neck and flared rim.

Date: 1840-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: blown glass, glass (material)

GUSN: 175754

Accession Number: 1993.750

Perfume vial

Thin cylindrical glass perfume vial with flared rim. White stripes running vertically down vial with stripes curvinig diagonally.

Date: 1840-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: blown glass, glass (material)

GUSN: 175756

Accession Number: 1993.751

Rectangular red leather needlebook with cardboard case inside containing paper packets of needles. Foliate gilding on binding. Flaps cover case inside. One flap with narrow piece which inserts into loop on other flap. Printed image of beehive inside flap with loop.

Date: 1840-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: leather, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 175759

Accession Number: 1993.737

Elephant figurine in box

Cardboard box with lid (.1ab) containing miniature ivory elephant. Box is mint green color with printed image of girl holding bouquet of flowers. Red piece of felt inside. Carved ivory elephant inside.

Date: 1840-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175762

Accession Number: 1993.748

Elephant figurine in box

Cardboard box with lid (.1ab) containing miniature ivory elephant. Box is mint green color with printed image of girl holding bouquet of flowers. Red piece of felt inside.

Date: 1840-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard, printing (process)

GUSN: 175764

Accession Number: 1993.748.1

Elephant figurine in box

Carved ivory elephant (.2) inside box. Number not marked on elephant.

Date: 1840-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: ivory (tooth component), carving (processes)

GUSN: 175765

Accession Number: 1993.748.2

Miniature Tea Set

Miniature ceramic tea set. White with hand-painted pink flowers with green leaves, blue bands, and pink accents.

Date: Late 19th Century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175769

Accession Number: 1993.734

Miniature Tea Set

Miniature ceramic tea set. White with hand-painted pink flowers with green leaves, blue bands, and pink accents. .1 = Pitcher. Pear shaped form with applied handle and applied s-shaped spout.

Date: Late 19th Century

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material), hand-painted

GUSN: 175770

Accession Number: 1993.734.1

Miniature Tea Set

Miniature ceramic tea set. White with hand-painted pink flowers with green leaves, blue bands, and pink accents. .2 = Creamer. Pear shaped form wtih handle and integral spout.

Date: Late 19th Century

Maker: unknown

Material: hand-painted, ceramic (material)

GUSN: 175771

Accession Number: 1993.734.2

Miniature Tea Set

Miniature ceramic tea set. White with hand-painted pink flowers with green leaves, blue bands, and pink accents..3a Sugar Bowl, squat form with molded handles. .3b Lid with finial.

Date: Late 19th Century

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material), hand-painted

GUSN: 175772

Accession Number: 1993.734.3

Miniature Tea Set

Miniature ceramic tea set. White with hand-painted pink flowers with green leaves, blue bands, and pink accents. .4a Tea cup with applied handle, .4b saucer- saucer incorrectly marked 1994.734.4b.

Date: Late 19th Century

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material), hand-painted

GUSN: 175773

Accession Number: 1993.734.4

Paper doll

Homemade paper doll (.1) with dress (.2). Paper doll and dress with features drawn in pencil. Doll with short dark hair, slip, bloomers, and shoes. Dress with scalloped collar, button down front, banded curffs. Banded, flared out bottom and belt. Dress hinged at shoulder to fit.

Date: 1856

Maker: Nelson, Victoria (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product), homemade, pencils (drawing and writing equipment)

GUSN: 175777

Accession Number: 1993.764

Paper doll

Homemade paper doll (.1) with dress (.2). Paper doll and dress with features drawn in pencil. Doll with short dark hair, slip, bloomers, and shoes.

Date: 1856

Maker: Nelson, Victoria (Maker)

GUSN: 175778

Accession Number: 1993.764.1

Paper doll

Homemade paper doll (.1) with dress (.2). Dress with scalloped collar, button down front, banded curffs. Banded, flared out bottom and belt. Dress hinged at shoulder to fit.

Date: 1856

Maker: Nelson, Victoria (Maker)

GUSN: 175779

Accession Number: 1993.764.2

"History of the Bible"

Miniature book with leather cover and tied binding. Woodcut illustrations. 190 Pages. Endleaves missing. Final pages probably missing.

Date: 1839

Maker: H & E Phinney (Publisher)

Material: paper (fiber product), leather, bindings (gathered matter components)

GUSN: 175781

Accession Number: 1993.740

Tape measure

Miniature cast iron pig with underside of stomach open and hollow to reveal tape measure [red, cotton] inside. Metal tail rotates around and winds tape meaure back inside pig.

Date: ca. 1850

Maker: unknown

Material: cast iron, cotton (textile)

GUSN: 175794

Accession Number: 1993.753

Box

White pasteboard box with cover attached on right side of box with paper hinge. Top cover with relief black and gilded scrolled foliate decoration and image of woman with child in cradle framed within decoration.

Date: ca. 1850

Maker: unknown

Material: pasteboard (paper), relief printing

GUSN: 175797

Accession Number: 1993.746

Writing Set

Writing set including three red-orange pieces of sealing wax, two black pieces of sealing wax, two metal wells with copper tops (one well with lid, one well with perforated top), one wood pencil with metal fasteners. Five metal quill tips, and a menagerie of colored circles of dried ink. All housed ...

Date: ca. 1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), steel (alloy), copper (metal)

GUSN: 175800

Accession Number: 1993.747

Wallpaper

Unused sample. End of roll with wrapper. Art Nouveau flowers with sinuous flowing leaves. Printed in brown, tan, olive, light green, yellow, gray and dark green on beige ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1891-1900

Maker: Hamilton, R.

GUSN: 175802

Accession Number: 1971.2186A

Wallpaper "Green Worm"

Fragment. Green, undulating line outlined in white and meandering on a field of small blue or dark green pindots.

Date: 1805-1807

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 175803

Accession Number: 1971.930A

Sugar Bowl

Porcelain sugar bowl with lid. Decorated with a green band and gilt. Two handles. Finial on lid is an open curled loop.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 174547

Accession Number: 2006.44.3030.2ab

Chocolate pot

Porcelain pot with lid. Handle is a right angle to spout and curves out from body of pot, being only attached to body at one point. Handle is formed with ridges around the circumference as if it were made of bamboo. Spout is very long. Handle and spout entirely gilt. Rim of pot and lid decorated w...

Maker: J. Pouyat Limoges (Manufacturer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 174550

Accession Number: 2006.44.3098AB

Dish

Pair of small porcelain dishes with three legs and a long handle. Looks like a skillet with legs. Decorated inside and out with floral motifs, pink being the predominant color. The decorations on the two dishes are not all the same. The outline of an acorn is impressed into the bottom of each dish.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 174554

Accession Number: 2006.44.3026

Dish

Small porcelain dish with three legs and a long handle. Looks like a skillet with legs. Decorated inside and out with floral motifs, pink being the predominant color. The central motif is a pink rose or peony with smaller purple daisies and morning glories and tiny blue flowers. The outline of an a...

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 174555

Accession Number: 2006.44.3026.1

Dish

Small porcelain dish with three legs and a long handle. Looks like a skillet with legs. Decorated inside and out with floral motifs, pink being the predominant color. The central motif is a pink tulip, with smaller yellow, purple and blue flowers. The outline of an acorn is impressed into the botto...

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 174556

Accession Number: 2006.44.3026.2

Bowl

Large earthenware bowl with off-white glaze. Wide mouthl with wavy rim, small footed base. Glaze applied unevenly, drip marks visible around the foot of the bowl.

Maker: unknown

Material: clay

GUSN: 174575

Accession Number: 2006.44.2254

Vase

Short red vase with straight sides and flared rim. Nannie Borden Phillilps butterfly mark scratched into base.

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

Material: clay

GUSN: 174577

Accession Number: 2006.44.2251

Bowl

Shallow bowl with dark blue glaze, wide mouth, small foot. Nannie Borden Phillps initials scratched on bottom

Date: 1920s

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

Material: clay

GUSN: 174578

Accession Number: 2006.44.2253

Bowl

Small bowl with purple glaze, ridged sides, flared rim. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark scratched into bottom.

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

Material: clay

GUSN: 174579

Accession Number: 2006.44.2252

Bowl

Shallow bowl with rolled rim, medium blue glaze, flat bottom. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark scratched into bottom.

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

Material: clay

GUSN: 174580

Accession Number: 2006.44.2245

Bowl

Shallow bowl with sloped sides and flat bottom. Painted decoration with center scene of a man in a yellow robe looking at three distant crosses with inscription in French. Three leaved yellow flower decoration around rim. White glaze on side and bottom not evenly applied before firing.

Date: 1934

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

Material: clay

GUSN: 174581

Accession Number: 2006.44.2246

Plate

Circular plate with painted decoration of a flower with one yellow and one blue bud. White glazed ground with painted blue rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: clay

GUSN: 174583

Accession Number: 2006.44.2247

Mug

Mug with no handle, gray-blue and dark gray exterior glaze. Interior glazed in pale tan. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark scratched into bottom

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

Material: clay

GUSN: 174584

Accession Number: 2006.44.2250

Cup

Ceramic cup with straight sides and slightly flared rim. Pale purple exterior glaze with aqua interior glaze. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark scratched into bottom.

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

Material: clay

GUSN: 174585

Accession Number: 2006.44.2248

Cup

Ceramic cup with beaded decoration around top edge and fluted decoration around bottom. Olive green exterior glaze, white interior glaze. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark scratched into bottom.

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

Material: clay

GUSN: 174586

Accession Number: 2006.44.2249

Planter

Ceramic planter with four linked hexagonal shaped compartments and four removable pots. White glazed surface.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 174601

Accession Number: 2006.44.2241A-E

Planter base

Ceramic planter with four linked hexagonal shaped compartments. White glaze on interior and exterior surfaces.

Maker: unknown

Material: clay

GUSN: 174603

Accession Number: 2006.44.2241a

Flowerpot

Ceramic flower pot with hole drilled in bottom. White glaze on rim and half of pot interior. Fits into circular hole in planter base.

Maker: unknown

Material: clay

GUSN: 174604

Accession Number: 2006.44.2241b

Flowerpot

Ceramic flower pot with hole drilled in bottom. White glaze on rim and half of pot interior. Fits into circular hole in planter base.

Maker: unknown

Material: clay

GUSN: 174605

Accession Number: 2006.44.2241c

Flowerpot

Ceramic flower pot with hole drilled in bottom. White glaze on rim and half of pot interior. Fits into circular hole in planter base.

Maker: unknown

Material: clay

GUSN: 174606

Accession Number: 2006.44.2241d

Flowerpot

Ceramic flower pot with hole drilled in bottom. White glaze on rim and half of pot interior. Fits into circular hole in planter base.

Maker: unknown

Material: clay

GUSN: 174610

Accession Number: 2006.44.2241e

Ashtray

Circular ceramic ash tray with three feet. Black exterior glaze with aqua interior. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark on bottom.

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

Material: clay

GUSN: 174611

Accession Number: 2006.44.2243

Bowl

Small bowl with brown glazed exterior. Dark purple glazed circle in center of bowl and dark purple line around base. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark on bottom.

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

Material: clay

GUSN: 174612

Accession Number: 2006.44.2244

Vase

Dark blue ceramic vase with slightly flared sides. Small footed base. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark on bottom.

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

Material: earthenware, clay, turning (shaping process), ceramic glaze

GUSN: 174613

Accession Number: 2006.44.2239

Pitcher

Small terracotta pitcher with handle. Bulbous shape with stylized floral design under spout. Pitcher exterior is not glazed. The handle, pitcher interior, and pitcher bottom are coated with a clear glaze. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark on bottom.

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

Material: terracotta (clay material)

GUSN: 174617

Accession Number: 2006.44.2242

Wallet and original box

Black leather ("polished cowhide") wallet (c) contains a removable photo-card case, bill holder, coin container that snaps shut, inside window for ID, etc. Wallet folds and snaps shut. Top of box (b) is decorated with shield emblem with dog and arrow motif is top left corner. Color scheme is green-t...

Date: Late 20th Century

Maker: Prince Gardner Co. (Maker)

Material: cowhide

GUSN: 174618

Accession Number: 1995.534A-C

Bowl

Bowl with sloped sides, scalloped edge, and footed base. Green exterior glaze with yellow interior. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark on bottom.

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

Material: clay

GUSN: 174621

Accession Number: 2006.44.2240

Wallpaper fragments

Two small wallpaper fragments with a four-petaled floral design in green within latched medallions, block printed on unfinished ground. From an 1841 Greek Revival House built by Joseph Langworthy in Hope Valley, Rhode Island. Found behind chimney wall. Very similar to the 'Provincetown Geometric' pa...

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 174664

Accession Number: 2009.18AB