Historic New England

Miniature tea set

Miniature tea service composed of teapot, sugar bowl, cream pitcher, 2 cups with saucers.

Date: 1930-50

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 256412

Accession Number: 1999.550

Teapot

White body with pink blossom and gilt accents.

Date: 1930-50

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256413

Accession Number: 1999.550.1

Sugar bowl

White body with pink blossom and gilt accents.

Date: 1930-50

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256414

Accession Number: 1999.550.2

Cream pitcher

White body with pink blossom and gilt accents.

Date: 1930-50

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256415

Accession Number: 1999.550.3

Cup with saucer

White body with pink blossom and gilt accents.

Date: 1930-50

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256416

Accession Number: 1999.550.4

Cup with saucer

White body with pink blossom and gilt accents.

Date: 1930-50

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256417

Accession Number: 1999.550.5

Pair of Andirons

Pair of cast iron andirons

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: cast iron

GUSN: 256418

Accession Number: 1999.546

This object contains harmful and stereotypical imagery. Historic New England acknowledges historical records / objects may contain harmful imagery and language reflecting attitudes and biases of their creators and time in which they were made. Historic New England does not alter or edit objects a...

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256419

Accession Number: 1999.546.1

Andiron

This object contains harmful and stereotypical imagery. Historic New England acknowledges historical records / objects may contain harmful imagery and language reflecting attitudes and biases of their creators and time in which they were made. Historic New England does not alter or edit objects a...

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256420

Accession Number: 1999.546.2

Miniature tea set

Miniature tea service composed of 6 tea cups with saucers, teapot with cover, cream pitcher, and sugar bowl with cover.

Date: 1900-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 256421

Accession Number: 1999.545

Teacup with saucer

Teacup (a) with saucer (b) have white body decorated on exterior with orange rib alternating with 3 white.

Date: 1900-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256423

Accession Number: 1999.545.1a,b

Teacup with saucer

Teacup (a) with saucer (b) have white body decorated on exterior with orange rib alternating with 3 white.

Date: 1900-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256424

Accession Number: 1999.545.2a,b

Teacup with saucer

Teacup (a) with saucer (b) have white body decorated on exterior with orange rib alternating with 3 white.

Date: 1900-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256425

Accession Number: 1999.545.3a,b

Teacup with saucer

Teacup (a) with saucer (b) have white body decorated on exterior with orange rib alternating with 3 white.

Date: 1900-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256426

Accession Number: 1999.545.4a,b

Teacup with saucer

Teacup (a) with saucer (b) have white body decorated on exterior with orange rib alternating with 3 white.

Date: 1900-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256427

Accession Number: 1999.545.5a,b

Teacup with saucer

Teacup (a) with saucer (b) have white body decorated on exterior with orange rib alternating with 3 white.

Date: 1900-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256429

Accession Number: 1999.545.6a,b

Teapot with cover

Teapot (a) with cover (b) have white body decorated on exterior with orange rib alternating with 3 white.

Date: 1900-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256430

Accession Number: 1999.545.7a,b

Cream pitcher

White body decorated on exterior with orange rib alternating with 3 white.

Date: 1900-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256431

Accession Number: 1999.545.8

Sugar bowl with cover

Bowl (a) with cover (b) have white body decorated on exterior with orange rib alternating with 3 white.

Date: 1900-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256432

Accession Number: 1999.545.9a,b

Side Chairs

Set of four windsor style side chairs.

Date: 1925-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood)

GUSN: 256439

Accession Number: 1999.504

Side Chair

Windsor style with serpentine crest carved with center shell flanked by leaves. Six spindles with decoratively turned stiles. Serpentine side seat with rounded front edge. turned legs with "H" patterned stretchers. Stain finish. Extra lobe at front corners of seat compared to partners.

Date: 1925-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256440

Accession Number: 1999.504.1

Side Chair

Windsor style with serpentine crest carved with center shell flanked by leaves. Six spindles with decoratively turned stiles. Serpentine side seat with rounded front edge. turned legs with "H" patterned stretchers. Stain finish.

Date: 1925-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256441

Accession Number: 1999.504.2

Side Chair

Windsor style with serpentine crest carved with center shell flanked by leaves. Six spindles with decoratively turned stiles. Serpentine side seat with rounded front edge. turned legs with "H" patterned stretchers. Stain finish. Extra lobe at front corners of seat compared to partners.

Date: 1925-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256442

Accession Number: 1999.504.3

Side Chair

Windsor style with serpentine crest carved with center shell flanked by leaves. Six spindles with decoratively turned stiles. Serpentine side seat with rounded front edge. turned legs with "H" patterned stretchers. Stain finish. Extra lobe at front corners of seat compared to partners.

Date: 1925-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 256443

Accession Number: 1999.504.4

Chamber set

Partial set of chamber ceramics. Includes washbasin, chamberpot with lid, slop pail with drainer inset. Possible maker's mark and other impressed marks.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 256444

Accession Number: 1999.521

Wallpaper covered trunk

Wallpaper-covered trunk with curved, hinged and locking lid. Trunk exterior is trimmed with leather strapping and tacks. It has a metal lock plate and side handles. The paper covering the trunk is printed with a pattern of repeating floral bouquets joined by festoons of ribbons and beads. The pape...

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: laid paper, wood (plant material), metal, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 287864

Accession Number: 2001.281.555.1

Portrait of Allen Penfield Harwood (1818-1893)

Half-length portrait of Allen Penfield Harwood. The young man has dark hair and blue-gray eyes. He is seated and wearing a white shirt with a black coat, waistcoat, and neck cloth. He has a small gold brooch with a portrait of an unknown man pinned to the center of his shirt. Oil on panel. Not frame...

Date: 1836

Maker: Powers, Asahel L. (American painter, 1813-1843) (Artist)

Material: oil paint (paint), panels (wood)

GUSN: 287865

Accession Number: 2013.113.1

Portrait of Elizabeth Harwood (1814-1882)

Half-length portrait of Elizabeth Harwood. The woman has dark hair and dark eyes. She is seated and is wearing a black dress with a black lace belt and white lace chemisette. She has a small gold brooch pinned at her neck. Oil paint on mattress ticking. Not framed.

Date: 1836

Maker: Powers, Asahel L. (American painter, 1813-1843) (Artist)

Material: oil paint (paint), ticking

GUSN: 287866

Accession Number: 2013.113.2

Tracing of a Wallpaper Pattern

Pencil tracing on tracing paper of Neoclassical wallpaper pattern. The traced wallpaper covers an old trunk from the Woodward House, Waban, Massachusetts (see trunk 2001.281.555.1). The tracing itself was found inside the trunk. The wallpaper pattern is of repeating floral bouquets joined by festoo...

Date: 1940-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: tracing paper

GUSN: 287877

Accession Number: 2001.281.555.2

Center Table

Center table with octagonal top and carved pedestal base. Base decorated with interlocking chain, scroll, and floral medallion patterns. Four flat rectangular feet.

Date: 1919

Maker: Bacon, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1856-1940 (Maker)

Material: walnut (wood)

GUSN: 287884

Accession Number: 2013.119.1

Bracelet

Bracelet made of blue and clear glass stones set in cast white metal plated in rhodium. Marked

Date: 1937-1942

Maker: Trifari, Krussman, and Fishel, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: glass (material), plating (metal coating), metal

GUSN: 287965

Accession Number: 2013.139.1

Wallpapered Boards

Five wallpapered boards. Wallpaper patterned with alternating medallions with solid and latticework backgrounds. Each medallion frames a flower. Printed in white, pinks, and greens on a blue ground. Removed from a circa 1744 Georgian home in Marblehead, MA.

Date: ca. 1740

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 287967

Accession Number: 2013.140.1

Hooked rug in frame

Hooked rug and working frame. Rug has pattern printed on base fabric with partially completed hooking of multicolored morning glories, peonies, and lilies. The rug background is unfinished. Rug is stretched and affixed to frame with cotton ties and t-shaped straight pins.

Date: 1960-2012

Maker: Roaf, Luceille Moore, 1932-2014 (Maker)

Material: wool (textile), cotton (textile), pine (wood)

GUSN: 287968

Accession Number: 2013.141.1

Wallpaper

Fragment of Gothic Revival wallpaper from Laconia, New Hampshire. Repeating image of a gazebo or tower among foliage. Roller-printed in blue, brown, and white on an off-white ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287974

Accession Number: 2001.281.556

Wallpaper

Medallion and vine stripe wallpaper from Nashua, New Hampshire. Block-printed in blue on pale pink ground. Wove paper, partial sheets.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 287975

Accession Number: 2001.281.557

Wallpaper

Fragment of scenic figured wallpaper from Naushua, New Hampshire. Repeating pastoral scene of farm animals and peasants. A boy in blue jacket, cow, goat, and sheep are central figures. Structures in background. Scene framed by foliage. Roller-printed in grays, greens, browns, blues, salmon, yellow, ...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287976

Accession Number: 2001.281.558

Wallpaper

Three unused fragments of floral stripe wallpaper from New Boston, Massachusetts. Pattern of gray stripes on polished white ground. Primary stripe is printed with sprigs of grasses and blue and violet flowers. Roller-printed in gray, two greens, two blues, ochre, brown, and two violets on a polish...

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288245

Accession Number: 2001.281.559A-C

Wallpaper

Fragment of stylized scroll and flower wallpaper from New Boston, Massachusetts. Stylized scrolling stems sprout clover leaves and flowers with orange centers. Roller-printed in black, orange, two tans and metallic gold on gray ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 288248

Accession Number: 2001.281.560

Wallpaper

Two fragments of striped wallpaper from Newfields, New Hampshire. Pattern imitates a striped textile. Multi-color chevron stripes alternate with stripes with highly stylized floral figures and panels similar to Persian patterns. Roller-printed in light blue, red, yellow, light green and tan on nav...

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 288251

Accession Number: 2001.281.561AB

Wallpaper

Fragment of unused wallpaper printed with haying scene from New Hampton, New Hampshire. Pastoral landscape scene depicting men and a woman haying and filling a horse-drawn wagon. There is a house in the background. Roller-printed in two blues, gray, white, black, two greens, two reds, ochre, pale ...

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288255

Accession Number: 2001.281.562

Wallpaper

Striped wallpaper fragment from Orford, New Hampshire. Foliate sprigs and snowflake-like medallions alternate on strapwork stripes. Roller-printed in maroon, green, and gray on light gray or white polished ground.

Date: 1855-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288256

Accession Number: 2001.281.563

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Pattern imitating marble blocks separated by a leaf and berry vine border. Block-printed in red and green on ungrounded paper. Paper may be handmade. A strip of cotton fabric affixed between two layers of the wallpaper, presumably to smooth the a...

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 288257

Accession Number: 2001.281.564

Wallpaper with attached border

One long wallpaper fragment, now in two parts, of a floral vine and stripe pattern from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The paper is block-printed in black, green and pink on white ground. Laid paper, partial sheets. Fragment (A) retains a deteriorated fragment of the paper's floral border block-printed...

Date: 1795-1810

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 288258

Accession Number: 2001.281.565.1AB

Drawing of a wallpaper pattern

Drawing of Fforal vine and stripe wallpaper pattern (see 2001.281.565.1ab). Wallpaper pattern is reproduced using pencil and colored with green, black and pink felt tip markers on a sheet of plain paper.

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288260

Accession Number: 2001.281.565.2

Wallpaper border

Fragment of wallpaper border with landscape scene from Wilmont Flat, New Hampshire. Wide border is printed with the repeating image of Mount Vernon in a pastoral landscape. Roller-printed in white, ochre, two browns, four greens, black and two grays on pink ground.

Date: 1865-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288261

Accession Number: 2001.281.566.1

Wallpaper border

Fragment of wallpaper border from Wilmont Flat, New Hampshire. Wide border with the repeating pastoral landscape scene of a steepled church, bridge, and river in the distance. Roller-printed in white, ochre, two browns, four greens, black and two grays on pink ground.

Date: 1865-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288262

Accession Number: 2001.281.566.2

Wallpaper border

Fragment of unused rose medallion border from Wilmont Flat, New Hampshire. Wide border with alternating large and small oval medallions framing rose sprays. The medallions are adorned with elaborate scrolls and strapwork above and hanging strings of beads below. Roller-printed in dark red, pink, m...

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), mica (white pigment)

GUSN: 288263

Accession Number: 2001.281.567

Wallpaper

Fragment of sprig and diaper-pattern wallpaper from Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Diaper pattern is a delicate, interwoven vine with small flowers framing a floral sprig. Roller-printed in maroon, ochre, brown, yellow and white on gray ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288320

Accession Number: 2001.281.568

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment from Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Ogee-shaped diaper pattern with quatrefoil figures. Roller-printed in black, orange and two shades of beige on polished cream ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 288321

Accession Number: 2001.281.569

Wallpaper

Fragment of unused Gothic Revival wallpaper from Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Elaborate ashlar pattern employing shadow to create three-dimensional scrolls, beads, and block elements. Block-printed in green, black, gray and white on a light gray ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 288326

Accession Number: 2001.281.570

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