Historic New England

Set of dining chairs

Set of twelve Queen Anne style dining chairs including two armchairs and ten side chairs all featuring floral marquetry decoration, carved claw-and-ball feet and red leather covered slip seats.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: marquetry, wood (plant material), leather

GUSN: 189582

Accession Number: 2006.44.1468

Saltcellar

A pair of silver saltcellars with an octagonal shape, a single large foot, and dual caryatid handles. Bowl has a broad scalloped lip with a beaded edge.

Date: 1900

Maker: Black, Starr & Frost (Manufacturer)

Material: sterling silver

GUSN: 189583

Accession Number: 2009.5.25.1

Saltcellar

A pair of silver saltcellars with an octagonal shape, a single large foot, and dual caryatid handles. Bowl has a broad scalloped lip with a beaded edge.

Date: 1900

Maker: Black, Starr & Frost (Manufacturer)

Material: sterling silver

GUSN: 189584

Accession Number: 2009.5.25.2

Salt Spoon

Silver salt spoon with a caryatid handle and a flat rounded bowl.

Date: 1885

Maker: Gorham Manufacturing Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: sterling silver

GUSN: 189585

Accession Number: 2009.5.26.1

Salt Spoon

Silver salt spoon with caryatid handle.

Date: 1885

Maker: Gorham Manufacturing Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: sterling silver

GUSN: 189586

Accession Number: 2009.5.26.2

Klismos chair

Klismos chair with brass inlay and caned seat. Exact match to 1972.53A-C.

Date: ca. 1805

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), brass (alloy), cane (plant material)

GUSN: 189587

Accession Number: 2009.5.34.1

Klismos chair

Klismos chair with brass inlay and caned seat. Exact match to 1972.53A-C.

Date: ca. 1805

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), cane (plant material), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 189588

Accession Number: 2009.5.34.2

Queen Anne style armchair with a solid vase shaped back splat featuring an inlaid wood design of an urn, scrolling foliage and an eagle, crowned male face at the center of the crest rail and scrolling vines of bellflowers along the stiles. S-shaped arms terminating in scrolls with inlaid wood floral...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 189589

Accession Number: 2006.44.1468.1

Crib

Walnut Gothic-Revival style crib; solid headboard and footboard with carved flattened trefoil "finials" at either side extending down to squared legs and stepped feet; casters; tops of headboard and footboard are rounded (extension of trefoil); solid sideboards; side rails with turned spindles and c...

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood), carving (processes), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 189590

Accession Number: 2005.18

Portrait of Reverend John Codman

Waist length portrait of Rev. John Codman (1782-1847), quarter turned to left. Dark background with view out window of a Church tower. Seated on a red upholstered chair with some wood visible at arm. He is later in years (middle age) with gray hair, white collar and black robe. In his right hand, he...

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: Huntington, Daniel (Artist) Attributed to Doggett, John (American mirror manufacturer, active 1809) (Framer)

Material: oil painting (technique), canvas, gilding

GUSN: 189592

Accession Number: 2005.20.1

Armchair

Queen Anne style armchair with a solid vase shaped back splat featuring an inlaid wood design of an urn, scrolling foliage and an eagle, crowned male face at the center of the crest rail and scrolling vines of bellflowers along the stiles. S-shaped arms terminating in scrolls with inlaid wood floral...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 189595

Accession Number: 2006.44.1468.2

Side chair

Queen Anne style side chair with a solid vase shaped back splat featuring an inlaid wood design of an urn, scrolling foliage and an eagle, crowned male face at the center of the crest rail and scrolling vines of bellflowers along the stiles. Horseshoe shaped red leather covered slip seat with a serp...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 189597

Accession Number: 2006.44.1468.3

Side chair

Queen Anne style side chair with a solid vase shaped back splat featuring an inlaid wood design of an urn, scrolling foliage and an eagle, crowned male face at the center of the crest rail and scrolling vines of bellflowers along the stiles. S-shaped arms terminating in scrolls with inlaid wood flor...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 189598

Accession Number: 2006.44.1468.4

Side chair

Queen Anne style side chair with a solid vase shaped back splat featuring an inlaid wood design of an urn, scrolling foliage and an eagle, crowned male face at the center of the crest rail and scrolling vines of bellflowers along the stiles. S-shaped arms terminating in scrolls with inlaid wood flor...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 189599

Accession Number: 2006.44.1468.5

Side chair

Queen Anne style side chair with a solid vase shaped back splat featuring an inlaid wood design of an urn, scrolling foliage and an eagle, crowned male face at the center of the crest rail and scrolling vines of bellflowers along the stiles. S-shaped arms terminating in scrolls with inlaid wood flor...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 189601

Accession Number: 2006.44.1468.6

Toy dressing table

Wooden dressing table painted aqua with attached sheet metal mirror.

Date: ca. 1945

Maker: unknown

Material: sheet metal, wood (plant material), paint (coating)

GUSN: 189602

Accession Number: 2009.7.4.1

Toy bench

Aqua painted wooden bench with bent metal legs

Date: ca. 1945

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), paint (coating), metal

GUSN: 189603

Accession Number: 2009.7.4.2

Portrait of Mary Wheelwright Codman (1792-1857)

Portrait of Mary Wheelwright Codman, pictured from the waist up, turned to the right. She is seated in a red-striped upholstered arm chair against a dark background, with a book open to a seascape on her lap. She wears a narrow gold wedding band on her left hand, and a scenic micromosaic brooch at h...

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: Huntington, Daniel, 1806-1906 (Artist) Attributed to Doggett, John (American mirror manufacturer, active 1809) (Framer)

Material: oil painting (technique), canvas, gilding

GUSN: 189604

Accession Number: 2005.20.2

Side chair

Queen Anne style side chair with a solid vase shaped back splat featuring an inlaid wood design of an urn, scrolling foliage and an eagle, crowned male face at the center of the crest rail and scrolling vines of bellflowers along the stiles. S-shaped arms terminating in scrolls with inlaid wood flor...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 189605

Accession Number: 2006.44.1468.7

Side chair

Queen Anne style side chair with a solid vase shaped back splat featuring an inlaid wood design of an urn, scrolling foliage and an eagle, crowned male face at the center of the crest rail and scrolling vines of bellflowers along the stiles. S-shaped arms terminating in scrolls with inlaid wood flor...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 189606

Accession Number: 2006.44.1468.8

Side chair

Queen Anne style side chair with a solid vase shaped back splat featuring an inlaid wood design of an urn, scrolling foliage and an eagle, crowned male face at the center of the crest rail and scrolling vines of bellflowers along the stiles. S-shaped arms terminating in scrolls with inlaid wood flor...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 189607

Accession Number: 2006.44.1468.9

Brass andiron

Brass andiron. Chippendale style with double lemon shaped top and turned neck. Arched legs with ball and claw feet. Iron supports for logs extend from backs of andiron. The original location for the andiron was in the Breakfast Room at the Sarah Orne Jewett House in South Berwick, Maine.

Date: 1776-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal)

GUSN: 189608

Accession Number: 2009.9.1.1

Brass andiron

Brass andiron. Chippendale style with double lemon shaped top and turned neck. Arched legs with ball and claw feet. Iron supports for logs extend from backs of andiron. The original location for the andiron was in the Breakfast Room at the Sarah Orne Jewett House in South Berwick, Maine.

Date: 1776-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal)

GUSN: 189609

Accession Number: 2009.9.1.2

Side chair

Queen Anne style side chair with a solid vase shaped back splat featuring an inlaid wood design of an urn, scrolling foliage and an eagle, crowned male face at the center of the crest rail and scrolling vines of bellflowers along the stiles. S-shaped arms terminating in scrolls with inlaid wood flor...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 189610

Accession Number: 2006.44.1468.10

Side chair

Queen Anne style side chair with a solid vase shaped back splat featuring an inlaid wood design of an urn, scrolling foliage and an eagle, crowned male face at the center of the crest rail and scrolling vines of bellflowers along the stiles. S-shaped arms terminating in scrolls with inlaid wood flor...

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 189611

Accession Number: 2006.44.1468.11

Sauce boat

Cream porcelain with brown enamel trim sauceboat and lid. Oval with curved handles that meet at a curved foot plate. Leaf pattern in brown enamel on handle seam and lid top, brown bands on lid tiers and boat mouth, foot and plate edge. Lid has two tiers and lid loop for a finger. Deep cup for sauce ...

Date: 1812-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, ceramic glaze

GUSN: 181404

Accession Number: 2005.13.5AB

Teacup

Pearlware blue glaze tea cup, no handle, with rural, beekeeping scene. Inside cup is blue floral and berry-vine decorative band and a blue beehive in the cup. The teacup foot is undecrorated.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 187737

Accession Number: 2005.13.6

Washington Elm Cup

Small, turned elm goblet. Light wood, undecorated cup and foot, bulbous stem.

Date: ca. 1923

Maker: unknown

Material: elm (wood), varnish

GUSN: 187738

Accession Number: 2005.13.7

Curtain Jabot

Two jabots, one with fringe (.1) and one without (.2); yellow silk with pink stylized flowers; three-inch border inset on two sides- at edge a third side- of yellow ground with pink flowers; .1 has pink and yellow silk-wrapped wooden spool fringe on two sides.

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 187739

Accession Number: 2005.14.1

Jabot

One jabot with fringe (.1)- yellow silk with pink stylized flowers; three-inch border inset on two sides- at edge a third side- of yellow ground with pink flowers; .1 has pink and yellow silk-wrapped wooden spool fringe on two sides.

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 187740

Accession Number: 2005.14.1.1

Jabot

Two jabots, one with fringe (.1) and one without (.2); yellow silk with pink stylized flowers; three-inch border inset on two sides- at edge a third side- of yellow ground with pink flowers.

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 187741

Accession Number: 2005.14.1.2

Saucer

Porcelain saucer with gilt vine decoration on a raspberry border.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Charles Field Haviland Co. (Manufacturer) Jones, McDuffee, & Stratton (Retailer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 187744

Accession Number: 2006.44.1960.157

Saucer

Porcelain saucer with gilt vine decoration on a raspberry border.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Charles Field Haviland Co. (Manufacturer) Jones, McDuffee, & Stratton (Retailer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 187745

Accession Number: 2006.44.1960.154

Saucer

Porcelain saucer with gilt vine decoration on a raspberry border.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Charles Field Haviland Co. (Manufacturer) Jones, McDuffee, & Stratton (Retailer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 187746

Accession Number: 2006.44.1960.155

Saucer

Porcelain saucer with gilt vine decoration on a raspberry border.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Charles Field Haviland Co. (Manufacturer) Jones, McDuffee, & Stratton (Retailer)

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 187747

Accession Number: 2006.44.1960.156

Drapery

Pennant-shaped (seven-sided) curtain component; rectangular shape with "v" cut out at top center; yellow silk fabric with pink stylized flowers throughout; half of a border at bottom edge-yellow ground with pink flowers; shadow of a three-inch border previously removed; no fringe.

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 187749

Accession Number: 2005.14.3

Drapery

Two rectangular curtain panels; yellow silk ground with pink stylized flowers; no fringe; evidence of a three inch border that has been removed.

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 187752

Accession Number: 2005.14.4.1-.2

Ambrotype of Victoria Munson

Wooden case covered with paper; imprint on the front and back. Inside: oval ambrotype; thin metal layer (bronze) above, surrounded with fabric; opposite side red fabric.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 187754

Accession Number: 2004.1.7

Pudding mold

Oval pudding mold with dome shaped lid [a] with handle, and removeable base with handle [b]. Also called a melon mold, can be used for pudding or ice cream.

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 187755

Accession Number: 2006.44.1788AB

Carving Set

Set consisting of a carving knife and fork with horn handles and silver endcaps with ram heads.

Maker: unknown

Material: horn (animal material), sterling silver, silver (metal)

GUSN: 187756

Accession Number: 2006.44.1510

Carving Knife

Carving knife with horn handle and silver endcap with ram heads.

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 187757

Accession Number: 2006.44.1510.1

Carving Fork

Set consisting of a carving fork with horn handle and silver endcap with ram heads. The fork has retractable guard.

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 187758

Accession Number: 2006.44.1510.2

Spice box

Circular spice box with hinged lid. Contains five small cylindrical containers with detachable lids, each stencilled with the name of a different spice. Two, possibly three, containers are missing. The missing containers might be "Ginger" "Cloves" or "Pepper".

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 187759

Accession Number: 2006.44.1790

Carving Set

Carving knife and fork with horn handles and plain sterling ferrule. Fork has a retractable guard.

Maker: unknown

Material: antler, sterling silver, silver (metal)

GUSN: 187760

Accession Number: 2006.44.1511

Spice box

Circular spice box with hinged lid. Japanned copper finish on exterior and interior surfaces. Contains five small cylindrical containers with detachable lids, each stencilled with the name of a different spice.

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal), japanning

GUSN: 187761

Accession Number: 2006.44.1790.1

Spice container

Cylindrical tin [a] with removable lid [b]. Lid stencilled "Spice". Japanned copper finish on exterior surfaces.

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal), japanning

GUSN: 187762

Accession Number: 2006.44.1790.2AB

Carving Fork

Carving fork with horn handle, plain sterling ferrule and a retractable guard. The guard has a single post on one side and two on the other side, giving the ability to also act as a rest.

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 187763

Accession Number: 2006.44.1511.1

Nutmeg container

Cylindrical tin [a] with removable lid [b]. Lid stencilled "Nutmeg". Japanned copper finish on exterior surfaces.

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal), japanning

GUSN: 187764

Accession Number: 2006.44.1790.3AB

Mace container

Cylindrical tin [a] with removable lid [b]. Lid stencilled "Mace". Japanned copper finish on exterior surfaces.

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal), japanning

GUSN: 187765

Accession Number: 2006.44.1790.4AB

Cinnamon container

Cylindrical tin [a] with removable lid [b]. Lid stencilled "Cinnamon". Japanned copper finish on exterior surfaces.

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal), japanning

GUSN: 187766

Accession Number: 2006.44.1790.5AB

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