Historic New England

Basket

Fluted silver basket with jointed semi-circular handle. Acanthus leaves on handle; flowers, scrolls and leaves on rim of basket.

Date: 1829

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 294081

Accession Number: 1958.335

White porcelain teacup and saucer with black transfer hand-painted image of the front of Nickels Sortwell, with legend "Sortwell Door, Wiscasset, Maine". Teacup (a) with green and gold band at lip, saucer (b) with floral molded edge with green and gold band.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, transfer printing, paint (coating), gilding

GUSN: 294084

Accession Number: 1958.278AB

Electrified lantern

Electrified sheet iron or tin lantern with circular base, spherical globe. Top is also circular with sides pierced with crosses and fluted cone-shaped cap.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: iron and iron alloy, tin and tin alloy, glass (material)

GUSN: 294086

Accession Number: 1958.282

Plant holder

Wrought iron bracket with scalloped edges holding bent iron wire triangle and hook from which is suspended a hanging plant.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wrought iron (iron alloy)

GUSN: 294090

Accession Number: 1958.285

Plant holder

Cast iron plant holder with open design of roses, daisies, leaves, and a bird. Bracket for holder is in form of two leaves.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: cast iron

GUSN: 294093

Accession Number: 1958.286

Wallpaper attached to wallboard

Wallpaper attached to wallboard from Brookline Village, Brookline, Massachusetts. Two layers of wallpaper affixed to a rough board with tongue and groove joint on left side, hand-wrought door latch hardware, and cut nails. Only small areas of the first layer of wallpaper are visible. The paper has a...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 294113

Accession Number: 2001.281.1208

Set of knives

Set of twelve vermeil knives (one missing) with beaded edges and molded shell ornament on handles. Part of a flatware set of knives, spoons, and forks.

Date: 1750-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal), vermeil

GUSN: 294156

Accession Number: 1958.332.1

Set of spoons

Set of twelve vermeil spoons with beaded edges and molded shell ornament on handles. Part of a flatware set of knives, spoons, and forks.

Date: 1750-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal), vermeil

GUSN: 294157

Accession Number: 1958.332.2

Set of forks

Set of twelve vermeil forks with beaded edges and molded shell ornament on handles. Part of a flatware set of knives, spoons, and forks.

Date: 1750-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal), vermeil

GUSN: 294158

Accession Number: 1958.332.3

Fork

One of a set of twelve vermeil forks with beaded edges and molded shell ornament on handles.

Date: 1750-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 294159

Accession Number: 1958.332.3.1

Children's Mug

Purple transfer-printed earthenware mug. Floral rectangle punctuated by c-scrolls and a "Holy Bible" in the upper center. Inscription, "George" in the center of the floral designs.

Date: 1825

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 294160

Accession Number: 1970.1310.74

Children's Mug

Pearlware children's mug. Blue transfer print design of flowers and c-scrolls is the backdrop for the inscription, "A Present for Charles". On the opposite side of the mug, there is a blue transfer-printed image of a ruin in the background and large sailboats in the foreground.

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 294161

Accession Number: 1970.1310.203

Children's Mug

Alphabet themed earthenware children's mug. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by hands doing sign language; blue transfer printing.

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 294162

Accession Number: 1970.1310.240

Children's Mug

Pearlware children's mug. Blue transfer-printed scene of father and son walking in front of their home in the garden. Blurry black line encircles the interior upper lip of mug as well as down the center of the handle.

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing, pearlware

GUSN: 294163

Accession Number: 1970.1310.263

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Red transfer-printed floral design has inscription in the center, "A PRESENT FOR/ GEORGE".

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 294164

Accession Number: 1970.1310.381

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Blue transfer-printed wreath of large flower blossoms punctuated with smaller leaves around a cursive inscription, "Charles".

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 294165

Accession Number: 1970.1310.540

Children's Mug

Earthenware mug. Brown transfer-printed floral motif with inscription, "A PRESENT FOR JOSEPH".

Date: 1810

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 294166

Accession Number: 1970.1310.621

Children's Mug

Purple transfer-printed banner on earthenware children's mug. Inscription inside banner is "A PRESENT FOR HENRY". Yellow, pink and green paint accents bunches of flowers inside and around banner.

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, pearlware, transfer printing, overpainting (technique)

GUSN: 294167

Accession Number: 1970.1310.654

Children's Mug

Pearlware children's mug. Maritime scene surrounded by different banners with insciptions inside.

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 294168

Accession Number: 1970.1310.761

Children's Mug

Creamware children's mug. Maroon transfer-printed design of an eagle with an American shield in front of its body, a wreath of flowers, and the word "Munroe" in white letters against a maroon backdrop.

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, creamware, transfer printing

GUSN: 294170

Accession Number: 1970.1310.820

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Canary yellow ground. Black rectangular wreath with leaves punctuated with stars. On the top center, there is an eagle with outstretched wings.

Date: 1805

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 294171

Accession Number: 1970.1310.873

Children's Mug

Earthenware children's mug. Two "burnt" orange color bands encircle mug. Yellow floral motifs are over the organe color bands. Inscription is between the two orange color bands.

Date: 1810

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 294172

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1032

Children's Mug

Creamware children's mug. Orange transfer-printed design surrounding inscription of "Lucy" in cursive lettering. Pink luster accents upper lip of mug, lower rim of mug and center of handle.

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, creamware, lusterware, transfer printing

GUSN: 294173

Accession Number: 1970.1310.1075

Table

Small mahogany gate leg table with rope turned legs. Two of the legs swing open to support the top.

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 294174

Accession Number: 2006.44.3706

Document Folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held the late-eighteenth century arithmetic book of her great, great aunt Lydia Percival [Freeman...

Date: 1910-1920

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss (Maker) Voysey, Charles Francis Annesley (Designer) Essex & Co (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), wallpapers

GUSN: 294175

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.1

Document Folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it was made to hold the "Commonplace Book" of her great, great aunt Lydia Percival Freeman. The ...

Date: 1910-1920

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product), wallpapers, tapes (binding components)

GUSN: 294176

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.2

Document Folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it held "Miscellaneous Papers of Lydia Percival of Lenox, Massachusetts (1773-1830)." The folder is...

Date: 1910-1920

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 294177

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.3

Document Folder

Handmade folder used to hold family documents. The folder is one of a group of twenty-one created by Olive Percival of Los Angeles, California. This folder's label, handwritten by Percival, indicates it was made to hold the "Miscel. Papers of Elisha Percival, Jr. of Lenox, Massachusetts (1781-1867)....

Date: 1910-1920

Maker: Percival, Olive, Miss (Maker)

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 294178

Accession Number: 2001.281.1193.4

Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper with pattern inspired by hand-painted Chinese panels popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in the United States. The wallpaper depicts a single meandering branch with a variety of different blooming flowers. Birds and parrots perch on the branch, butt...

Date: 1900-1930

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292921

Accession Number: 2001.281.1132

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Grape Ivy" pattern (#23031) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper has ajn all-over dennse pattern of trailing vines of grape leaves. Roller-printed in two greens, two pinks and ...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292922

Accession Number: 2001.281.849

Paper Window Shade

Unused paper window shade. Rolled shade decorated with large rectangle of orange rose buds framing a large orange rose bouquet. Roller-printed in black, taupe, two greens, two oranges, red and blue on brown ground. Brown ground applied to both sides of paper.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292923

Accession Number: 2001.281.1133

Paper Window Shade

Unused paper window shade. Rolled shade decorated with a large rectangle framing stylized vase of flowers. Flowers also decorate corners of the rectangle. Roller-printed in black, red, yellow, white, cream and two browns on brown ground. Ground applied to both sides of paper.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292924

Accession Number: 2001.281.1134

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper in the "Bayside" pattern (#23171) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company. Wallpaper has a large grid pattern with the grid being composed of densely packed small grape leaves. Each square in the grid contains three larg...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292925

Accession Number: 2001.281.850

Wallpaper

Two rolled fragments of a Chinoiserie pattern wallpaper. Colorful birds perch and fly among meandering branches with flowers and seed pods. Roller-printed in black, three greens, two blues, purple, two pinks, maroon, gray, white, yellow, brown and tan on polished black ground.

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292926

Accession Number: 2001.281.1135AB

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Mary Wade" pattern (#23064) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. Wallpaper is printed with a geometric tile pattern featuring a stylized floral and foliate medallion in a sixteen-sided t...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292927

Accession Number: 2001.281.851

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment of embossed, gilt-figure wallpaper. Branches of embossed and gilded acorns over block-printed leaves. Block-printed in two browns and tan on taupe ground.

Date: 1860-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), embossed wall coverings, gilding

GUSN: 292928

Accession Number: 2001.281.1136

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Polite Parlor" pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. The wallpaper features a floral trail pattern with undulating vertical lace ribbons intertwined with roses, other flowers and ...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292929

Accession Number: 2001.281.852

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Robert Fulton" pattern (#23104) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. The wallpaper has a large-scale scenic patter which commemorates the invention of the steamship by Robert Fulton. Lar...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292930

Accession Number: 2001.281.853

Reproduction Wallpaper

Two partial rolls of reproduction wallpaper in the "Queen Anne" pattern (#23193) designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. The wallpaper has a large-scale floral spray pattern featuring carnations and other flowers. Both rolls are roller-...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292932

Accession Number: 2001.281.854AB

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment of striped wallpaper. Brown stripes with gold dots edged on each side by teal stripes with gold accents resembling gimp or galloon trim. Roller-printed in brown, teal and metallic gold on tan ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292933

Accession Number: 2001.281.1137

Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper with large-scale pattern of putti and other neo-classical motifs. Two putti, with a goat between them, stand on a large foliate swag wrapped with ribbon holding up a large basket of fruit. Two cockatoos are perched above the basket. Block-printed in cream and two grays on ...

Date: 1970-1980

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292935

Accession Number: 2001.281.1138

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Toll Gate" pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company, Chicago. The wallpaper has a large scale pattern of scalloped-edged cartouches enclosed in a trellis work frame. Each cartouche contains a ...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic paint

GUSN: 292937

Accession Number: 2001.281.856

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Wilton Toile" pattern designed by Binnie B. Wilson for the Waterhouse Collection manufactured by The Warner Company. Chicago. Wallpaper has a large scenic pattern imitating a toile textile. A series of rural vignettes are shown including: a seated coupl...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Warner Company (Manufacturer) Wilson, Binnie B. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292939

Accession Number: 2001.281.857

Reproduction Wallpaper

Two partial rolls of reproduction wallpaper in the "Braintree Stripe" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. The wallpaper has vertical stripes composed of six-pointed stars in circles alternating with stripes of a vine with feather-like leaves. Dividing these stripes are stripes with a geometric diamon...

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292940

Accession Number: 2001.281.858AB

Reproduction Wallpaper

Partial roll of reproduction wallpaper in the "Dandelion Stripe" pattern by Katzenbach and Warren. Wallpaper has a vertical stripe pattern with two alternating stripes. One stripe has highly abstracted dandelion leaves atop two large solid stripes. The other is a highly abstracted eyelet lace motif....

Date: 1959-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 292941

Accession Number: 2001.281.859

Fresco Wallpaper

Rolled fragment of frieze or border paper from a fresco set of wallpapers. Together with matching sidewall and dado papers, this upper border would have formed panels imitating elaborate Rococo-style architectural molding. Block-printed in cream, tan and brown with green flocking and gold foil accen...

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292942

Accession Number: 2001.281.1139

Wallpaper

Rolled fragment of wallpaper with diamond and tassel pattern imitating upholstery. A cord and tassels hang from diamonds framing floral sprigs. The diamonds form the corners within a larger diamond pattern. Diamonds are outlined with cord and gimp accented by round tacks. Background grid pattern ...

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292943

Accession Number: 2001.281.1140

Wallpaper

Two rolled fragments of striped wallpaper with stylized floral figures. White, purple and gray stripes appear to be applied with a pan or trough printing technique. The figures are block-printed in metallic gold, orange and black on gray ground.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 292944

Accession Number: 2001.281.1141AB