Historic New England

Wallpaper

Fragments. Vertical striped pattern with horizontal pinstripes. Vertical meandering vine with flowers or berries. Printned in green, brown, orange and white on a grey or blue ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177344

Accession Number: 1968.45.4A

Wallpaper

Fragment. Vertical striped pattern with horizontal pinstripes. Vertical meandering vine with flowers or berries. Printed in green, brown, orange, white on a grey or blue ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177345

Accession Number: 1968.45.4B

Fragments. The sidewall piece is a striped pattern with a spray or bouquet of flowers of daisies in the wide space between stripes. The stripes have geometric diamond shapes. Printed in green, black, orange and grey on cream ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177346

Accession Number: 1968.45.3

Wallpaper

Two fragments of aesthetic style border. Pattern consists of stylized fan and floral motifs. Prints in yellow, reds, maroon, white and black on olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177347

Accession Number: 1968.45.5

Wallpaper

Fragment. Indecipherable pattern. Printed in olive, red and black.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177349

Accession Number: 1968.45.4C

Wallpaper

Eight fragments of wallpaper. Tossed leaf pattern printed in brown and black on a white ground.

Date: 1795-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177350

Accession Number: 1968.45.1

Wallpaper

Fragment. Densely arranged foliage with berries and floral design with asymetrical strapwork scrolled elements. Printed in metallic gold and olive with fine vertical black lines over design.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177351

Accession Number: 1968.41

Wallpaper

Fragment. Vertical stripe, solid blue stripe alternating with stripe of running vine beads and foliage elements on white ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177352

Accession Number: 1968.42

Wallpaper

Fragment. Allover foliate design with leaves and vaguely seaweed-looking forms. Printed in red, yellow and green on grey ground.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177353

Accession Number: 1968.43

Wallpaper

Five fragments. Pattern is hard to decipher. Stylized leaves and berries or flowers. Printed in orange, green and black on a white ground.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177354

Accession Number: 1968.47

Wallpaper

Fragments. Large-scale floral and foliate vine with fruit, possibly pomegranates. Stenciled in pink, orange, two greens, yellow and block-printed in black.

Date: 1712-1740

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177355

Accession Number: 1969.225

Wallpaper

Fragment. Festoon border. Drapery swags in white imitation damask ornamented with beading and floral garlands. Printed in pink, two greens, tan, brown and burnt sienna on white ground.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177356

Accession Number: 1969.226B

Wallpaper

Fragment. Diagonal vine with red dots separated by row of repeated green dots. Printed on white ground.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177357

Accession Number: 1969.226

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Pinecone framed by grapevine and connected by vertical foliate elements. Printed in lavender, red and orange on unground paper.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177358

Accession Number: 1969.224

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern. Losenges have leafy vine edges. Inside is a bouquet of roses and floral vines framing the bottom. Printed in two browns and white on a pea green ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177359

Accession Number: 1969.218C

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Floral sprays with berries on sprig field. Printed in magenta and light purple, two greens and two greys on white ground. Drop repeat.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177360

Accession Number: 1969.218K

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Floral stripe with yellow and white daisies and small orange and red flowers, alternating with yellow and olive stripes of imitation moire edged with palmettes. Printed on light olive ground.

Date: 1875-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177361

Accession Number: 1969.218L

Wallpaper

Two wallpaper fragments. Pieces of "Monuments of Paris". Leaf bough and boughs and bushes surrounding an embankment and other piece is of tree foliage. Printed in 4+ greens and three browns on a pale green ground.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: Dufour, Joseph (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177362

Accession Number: 1969.227

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Delicate foliage sprays in green and white on a field of meandering daisy chains. Printed on light green ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177363

Accession Number: 1969.218B

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. A gilt-figured paper with a repeating bouquet pattern. Printed in orange-red, gold leaf on a grey ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177364

Accession Number: 1969.218D

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Aesthetic and naturalistic floral paper with dense foliage, berries and a trellis. Printed in three greens, two reds and yellow on a sage ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177365

Accession Number: 1969.218G

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. Sprig and vine stripe pattern on wide stripe are rose sprigs with vertical vine behind and on the thin strip is a vine of roses with thorns. Printed in orange, red, green, white and soft pink on a pale pink ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177366

Accession Number: 1969.218H

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Renaissance Revivial design with scrolls, strapwork and rectangular cells. There is a vertical and horizontal reference. Printed in light blue and grey on a white polished ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177367

Accession Number: 1969.218J

Wallpaper

Unused wallpape border fragment. Alternating thin and broad horizontal stripes with a bottom row of beads. Flocked and gilt. Printed in dark red, fushia, gold leaf, light and dark brown on a tan ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177368

Accession Number: 1969.218M

Table Runner

Narrow white table runner with buttonhole stitch over the seam, embroidered square details inside border.

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), embroidering

GUSN: 63929

Accession Number: 1970.527.4

Candlestick

Blown and molded colorless glass body. Hexagonal socket with flat top with circular mouth to receive candle. Vase-form stem swelling at center and tapering to a corresponding hexagonal base. Heavy glass body. .

Date: 1900-1925

Maker: Heisey (Manufacturer)

Material: glass (material), molding (forming)

GUSN: 63930

Accession Number: 1970.668.1

Candlestick

Blown and molded colorless glass body. Hexagonal socket with flat top with circular mouth to receive candle. Vase-form stem swelling at center and tapering to a corresponding hexagonal base. Heavy glass body. .

Date: 1900-1925

Maker: Heisey (Manufacturer)

Material: glass (material), molding (forming)

GUSN: 63931

Accession Number: 1970.668.2

Candlestick

Blown and molded colorless glass body. Hexagonal socket with flat top with circular mouth to receive candle. Vase-form stem swelling at center and tapering to a corresponding hexagonal base. Heavy glass body.

Date: 1900-1925

Maker: Heisey (Manufacturer)

Material: glass (material), molding (forming)

GUSN: 63932

Accession Number: 1970.668.3

Candlestick

Blown and molded colorless glass body. Hexagonal socket with flat top with circular mouth to receive candle. Vase-form stem swelling at center and tapering to a corresponding hexagonal base. Heavy glass body.

Date: 1900-1925

Maker: Heisey (Manufacturer)

Material: glass (material), molding (forming)

GUSN: 63933

Accession Number: 1970.668.4

Commemorative Plate

White porcelain body. Scalloped and lobed edge. Wide rim with aqua border with shaped gilt scrolling and floral vines. Cavetto border corresponds. Interior of well with bust length portrait of King Louis XIV of France.

Date: 1850-1899

Maker: Sevres (Maker) Morion (Artist) Chateau Des Tuileries (Maker)

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 63934

Accession Number: 1970.719

Commemorative Plate

White porcelain body. Scalloped and lobed edge. Wide rim with cream colored ground with three floral reserves alternating with aqua reserves with gilt decoration of musical instruments. Heavy gilt accents and floral borders throughout. Well with aqua border with polychrome bust-length portrait of Ki...

Date: 1850-1899

Maker: Sevres (Maker) Morion (Artist) Chateau Des Tuileries (Maker)

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 63935

Accession Number: 1970.720

Commemorative Plate

White porcelain body. Scalloped and lobed edge. Wide rim with cream colored ground with pink edge with gilt border decoration of scrolled reserves and meandering floral vine. Circular well with pink border and gilt floral borders. Hand painted bust length portrait of King Louis VIII of France. Mar...

Date: 1850-1899

Maker: Sevres (Maker) Morion (Artist) Chateau Des Tuileries (Maker)

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 63936

Accession Number: 1970.721

Commemorative Plate

White porcelain body, scalloped and lobed edge. Wide rim with pink border with shaped gilt scrolling and floral vines. Three floral reserves alternating feathered edge. Pink and gilt cavetto border. Interior well with bust length portrait of King Louis XV of France. Marks: See companion plates 1970....

Date: 1850-1899

Maker: Sevres (Maker) Morion (Artist) Chateau Des Tuileries (Maker)

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 63937

Accession Number: 1970.722

Pitcher

Renaissance revival style, highly polished chrome-like finish; silver plate over base metal. Bulbous body tapers from a swelled bottom to an undefined neck then swells slightly at shaped and spouted mouth with Greek key border decoration Body with machine engraved decoration at bottom with circular ...

Date: 1890

Maker: Gorham Manufacturing Co. (Maker)

Material: plating (metal coating), silver (metal)

GUSN: 63938

Accession Number: 1970.725

Teakettle

All bulbous circular forms with reeded bottom half, with dished shoulders with stippled floral engraved decoration. Cylindrical neck with molded naturalistic floral border band. Circular mouth. Teakettle or hot water pot, stand, and burner. Pot has elongated spout at side' hinged domed lid with ga...

Date: 1880

Maker: Reed & Barton (Manufacturer)

Material: plating (metal coating), silver (metal)

GUSN: 63939

Accession Number: 1970.726.1

Teapot

Tea or coffee pot; Pot has elongated spout at side' hinged domed lid with gadrooning; C-shape handle at back. Part of a six piece tea set, All bulbous circular forms with reeded bottom half, with dished shoulders with stippled floral engraved decoration. Cylindrical neck with molded naturalistic fl...

Date: 1880

Maker: Reed & Barton (Manufacturer)

Material: plating (metal coating), silver (metal)

GUSN: 63940

Accession Number: 1970.726.2

Teapot

Tea or hot water pot; Pot has elongated spout at side' hinged domed lid with gadrooning; C-shape handle at back. Part of a six piece tea set. All bulbous circular forms with reeded bottom half, with dished shoulders with stippled floral engraved decoration. Cylindrical neck with molded naturalistic...

Date: 1880

Maker: Reed & Barton (Manufacturer)

Material: plating (metal coating), silver (metal)

GUSN: 63941

Accession Number: 1970.726.3

Sugar Bowl

Sugar bowl with two C-shaped handles and domed cover. Part of a six piece tea set. All bulbous circular forms with reeded bottom half, with dished shoulders with stippled floral engraved decoration. Cylindrical neck with molded naturalistic floral border band. Circular mouth.

Date: 1880

Maker: Reed & Barton (Manufacturer)

Material: plating (metal coating), silver (metal)

GUSN: 63942

Accession Number: 1970.726.4

Cream Pitcher

Cream pitcher. Part of a six piece tea set. All bulbous circular forms with reeded bottom half, with dished shoulders with stippled floral engraved decoration. Cylindrical neck with molded naturalistic floral border band. Circular mouth.

Date: 1880

Maker: Reed & Barton (Manufacturer)

Material: plating (metal coating), silver (metal)

GUSN: 63943

Accession Number: 1970.726.5

Waste Bowl

Waste bowl. Part of a six piece tea set. All bulbous circular forms with reeded bottom half, with dished shoulders with stippled floral engraved decoration. Cylindrical neck with molded naturalistic floral border band. Circular mouth.

Date: 1880

Maker: Reed & Barton (Manufacturer)

Material: plating (metal coating), silver (metal)

GUSN: 63944

Accession Number: 1970.726.6

Tray

Wide oval form, with dished rim terminating in molded beaded edge. Flat bottom with thinly executed machine-etched decoration featuring a Greek key border band enclosing a stylized s-scroll border band. Each end with applied handle: cartouche shape with beaded edge, scrolling to leafy terminus and s...

Date: 1950

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), plating (metal coating), silver (metal)

GUSN: 63945

Accession Number: 1970.727

Tile

Buff-colored clay body with molded relief decoration of coat of arms featuring brown two-headed eagle with orb at base and crown above, flanked by columns. Decoration is tin glaze in blues, tan, and greens. Pencil notation on back, Modern tile. Coat of arms of Charles V of Spain. Bought in Sevill...

Date: 1913

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), tin glaze, tin (metal)

GUSN: 63946

Accession Number: 1970.731

Painting of George Washington

Bust-length portrait of George Washington in military uniform; polychrome on a muddy brown background. Molded wooden rectangular frame painted with metallic paint.

Date: 1860-1888

Maker: unknown

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 63947

Accession Number: 1970.732

Portrait of Henry Chandler Bowen

Three-quarter bust portrait of Henry Bowen (1813-1896) in a dark suit, white shirt, and gold shirt pin; bearded and balding gray hair. Classical draped curtain in background and Roseland Park in distance. Under glass in gilded frame, composed of four alternating decorative bands.

Date: 1880

Maker: Probably Sawyer, James J., 1813-1888 (Maker)

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 63948

Accession Number: 1970.733

Fireplace Tongs

Faceted round handle; arms have shaped and rounded shoulders' ring turnings terminating in round pincers.

Date: 1925-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 63949

Accession Number: 1970.741

Fireplace Shovel

Ring-turned brass finial; cylindrical steel shaft, bell-shaped iron shovel.

Date: 1925-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal), steel (alloy)

GUSN: 63950

Accession Number: 1970.742

Fireplace Broom

Baluster and ring turned shaft with knop finial; brush dyed green.

Date: 1900-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 63951

Accession Number: 1970.744

Bellows

Wooden bellows with shell and bellflower carving on one face; leather bag; brass nozzle. Studded with brass nails.

Date: 1880

Maker: unknown

Material: caning, carving (processes), shell (animal material), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 63952

Accession Number: 1970.745

Pitcher

Molded white clay body with colorless glaze. Exterior with overall. Gilt asymmetrical floral branches meander over body with bamboo and other blossoms, in the Japanese taste; two butterflies and one been. Body is spherical with round foot; cylindrical neck with round spouted mouth. Molded C-shaped h...

Date: 1878-1891

Maker: Haviland, Charles Field, 1878-1891 (Maker)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 63953

Accession Number: 1970.746

Sugar Bowl

Sugar bowl with lid. Conforming bulbous body with a twisted c-shaped handle on each side. Slightly domed circular lid with button knop finial. Molded white clay body with colorless glaze. Over glaze maroon/oxblood ground imitating oriental wares. Over glaze thickly painted floral gilt decoration i...

Date: 1910

Maker: Minton's (Maker)

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 63954

Accession Number: 1970.747.2

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