Historic New England

Tapa

Rectangular shaped tapa fragment, painted black and embossed with diamond shapes. Some of the white ground is visible through the watermarked diamonds and there appear to be thick stripes of black at 3" intervals. This fragment was cut from a larger sample. Possibly from Hawaii. Kapa (the Hawaiian w...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 271993

Accession Number: 2006.44.3670

Tapa

Tapa fragment of unknown origin, but likely from Fiji, Tonga or Samoa. Stamped design of vertical and horizontal lines in brown and black. Corner edge is outlined with a thick black border. Fragment was cut from the corner of a larger sample at some point, leaving four "strings" on the left edge. Ta...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 271995

Accession Number: 2006.44.3671

Wooden pedestal

Two part wooden pedestal, central part of pedestal has a red cover.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 272001

Accession Number: 1930.1168B-C

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Machine made paper, machine printed gray stripe on white ground. Older layers of paper adher to back of the uppermost layer but are not visible for identification.

Date: Twentieth Century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272007

Accession Number: 2000.83

Wall covering

Fragment of stenciled textile wall covering. Black geometric design in the form of a vertical column stenciled on olive, hand painted ground. The stencil pattern includes palmettes, a medallion and fretwork. The color values of the ground appear to have been modified prior to application of the st...

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272008

Accession Number: 2003.24

Bombe Chest of Drawers

Bombe chest of drawers.

Date: ca. 1770

Maker: Attributed to Needham, Thomas, 1734-1804 (Furniture maker)

Material: mahogany (wood), eastern white pine (wood)

GUSN: 272012

Accession Number: 1.2011

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Light green ground with oak leaf printed in white; daisy stripe printed in two browns, pink, orange, green, lavender and purple. Straight repeat.

Date: 1818-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272013

Accession Number: 1965.7.2B

Textile fragment

Rectangular fragment, pink floral design with pink stripe and dot border on yellow ground.

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 272024

Accession Number: 1969.3505.3

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal shaped fragment with floral rosette pattern on blue ground. Selvedge width of fabric.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272025

Accession Number: 1914.244K

Chintz Fragment

Rectangular fragment seamed lengthwise up the center. Seam is formed by matched selvedges. Floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272026

Accession Number: 1914.244F

Chintz Fragment

L-shaped fragment with one selvedge edge. Floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272027

Accession Number: 1914.244M

Chintz Fragment

Triangular shaped fragment with one selvedge edge. Floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272028

Accession Number: 1914.244N

Chintz Fragment

Rectangular fragment with raw edges. Floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272029

Accession Number: 1914.244O

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with one selvedge edge and one cut edge. Urn border pattern runs along cut edge. Floral rosette pattern in center on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272030

Accession Number: 1914.244S

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with one selvedge edge and one cut edge. Urn border pattern runs along cut edge. Floral rosette pattern in center on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272031

Accession Number: 1914.244T

Chintz Fragment

Roughly rectangular fragment with one longitudinal selvedge edge. Floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272032

Accession Number: 1914.244P

Chintz Fragment

Rectangular fragment seamed lengthwise up the center. Seam is formed by one selvedge edge and one cut edge. Floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272033

Accession Number: 1914.244G

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with floral rosette pattern and urn border pattern on blue ground. Fragment has unattached white cotton flannel backing. Selvedge edge at one side, cut edge along border edge.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272034

Accession Number: 1914.244H

Chintz Fragment

Rectangular fragment, border only. Urn pattern on blue ground, no floral rosettes. Selvedge along one side, opposite border with cut edge.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272035

Accession Number: 1914.244Y

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment, border only. Urn pattern on blue ground, no floral rosettes. Edges cut on both sides.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272036

Accession Number: 1914.244X

Chintz Fragment

Irregular rectangular fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272037

Accession Number: 1914.244L

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with raw edges. Urn border and floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272038

Accession Number: 1914.244W

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with raw edges. Urn border on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272039

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.1

Chintz Fragment

Rectangular fragment, top selvedge edge. Urn border pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272040

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.2

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern on blue ground with tips of floral rosette pattern just visible along top edge.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272041

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.3

Chintz Fragment

Rectangular fragment with one selvedge edge. Floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272042

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.4

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with one selvedge edge opposite border. Urn border pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272043

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.5

Chintz Fragment

Irregular rectangular fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern on blue ground. Short edges of rectangle are cut on a curve.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272044

Accession Number: 1914.244V

Chintz fragment

L-shaped fragment with one selvedge edge. Floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272045

Accession Number: 1914.244U

Chintz Fragment

Irregular rectangular fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern with partial floral rosette pattern along edge. Fragment is pieced together at one end with hand stitches in blue cotton thread. Narrow end has been trimmed to a curve, cutting across border pattern. The end opposite the vertical cut ...

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272046

Accession Number: 1914.244I

Chintz Fragment

Irregular rectangular fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile), glaze, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 272048

Accession Number: 1914.244D

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments from the Lincoln Streeter House in Brimfield, Massachusetts. Floral pattern printed in brown, cream, white, blackand gray on gray ground.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272049

Accession Number: 1979.4.1AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments from the Lincoln Streeter House in Brimfield, Massachusetts. Scrolling vine and sprig pattern printed in green, brown, white, gray, yellow and liquid mica on a pink ground.

Date: Early twentieth century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272051

Accession Number: 1979.4.3AB

Wallpaper

Three wallpaper framents found beneath the 1890s wallpaper in the parlor of Castle Tucker, Wiscasset, Maine

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272053

Accession Number: 1998.6399A-C

Kapa

Large piece of white kapa, or Hawaiian barkcloth. Embossed throughout with small circles and very lightly tinted with charcoal. The texture of the kapa is thin but crisp. Most likely a layer of a kapa moe, or mutli-layered sleeping cover. Tapa (or kapa in Hawaii) is cloth made from the inner bar...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272054

Accession Number: 2006.44.3672

Kapa

Large piece of kapa, or Hawaiian barkcloth. Pink on one side with a decorative pattern of widely spaced bands and triangles made with black/gray spots.The kapa has a crisp, thick texture and is embossed throughout with small triangle shapes. Probably the top layer of a kapa moe, or multi-layered s...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272055

Accession Number: 2006.44.3673

Bamboo Settee

Bamboo, rattan, and wicker settee with four rectangular cushions made of a woven plant material.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material), wicker, rattan

GUSN: 272056

Accession Number: 1936.85

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272057

Accession Number: 1940.750A

Tapa

Large piece of tapa cloth, from Samoa (or possiblyTonga). Tapa - or barkcloth - is called siapo in Samoa. Heavily decorated over its entire surface, the design was made by rubbing barkcloth on a upeti, or patterned form, creating a very fine and intricate pattern. Tapa is fabric made from the inner...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272058

Accession Number: 2006.44.3674

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272060

Accession Number: 1940.750B

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272061

Accession Number: 1940.750C

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272062

Accession Number: 1940.750D

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272063

Accession Number: 1940.750E

Tapa

Large piece of heavily decorated Samoan tapa cloth, called siapo in Samoa. Intricate decorative pattern covers the surface with frequent overpainting that delineates portions of the pattern. The pattern is made up of triangles, curved hourglass shapes, leaf patterns, chevrons and star-shapes that ar...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272065

Accession Number: 2006.44.3675

Wallpaper

Unused roll. Pattern composed of rose bouquets, arabesque and garlands. Prints in red, brown, gray, yellow, blue and white on blue ground. Straight repeat. Pin holes visible.

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272066

Accession Number: 1999.109

Wallpaper

Two unused rolls of wallpaper. Pattern composed of roses intersected by meandering stylized leaves. Printed in two pinks, red, gray, three greens, and taupe on biege ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 272067

Accession Number: 1999.156AB

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pattern composed of roses intersected by meandering stylized leaves. Printed in yellow, pink, four greens, gray, taupe, and brown on a cream ground.

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272068

Accession Number: 1999.157

Firetool stand

Brass firetool stand. Circular base with four bun feet. Ball finial. Gallery runs around base. Base of stand has a pebbled surface.

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), casting (process), spinning (metalworking)

GUSN: 290801

Accession Number: 1968.167.1

Fireplace tongs

Brass fireplace tongs with ball finial.

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), casting (process)

GUSN: 290802

Accession Number: 1968.167.2

Fireplace poker

Brass fireplace poker with ball finial. Squared blunt end. Poker has a metal rod wrapped around the neck to hang the poker from the arm of the firetool stand.

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal), casting (process)

GUSN: 290803

Accession Number: 1968.167.3

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