Historic New England

Instruction Book

Book, Hands on Spinning by Lee Raven. Interweave Press.

Date: 1987

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 316997

Accession Number: 2016.3.30

Globe

White glass lamp globe.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 317002

Accession Number: 1932.2587

Wash Basin

Large porcelain wash bowl. White body with dark blue scrolling edge around top of each piece. Yellow foliate scrolls and flowers.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 317004

Accession Number: 1933.7098.7

Tea set

Six-piece whiteware tea service with black transfer flowers and fruit, polychrome hand-painted green, red, pink and blue. Teapot and sugar with scalloped edges. Two cups and two saucers

Date: 1790-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, hand-painted

GUSN: 317007

Accession Number: 1958.348.1-.6

Soap Dish

Soap dish with lid.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 317008

Accession Number: 1990.242AB

Dish

Glass footed dish with scalloped edge and star design.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 317010

Accession Number: 1931.1876

Sauceboat

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 317112

Accession Number: 1922.933

Tureen

White tureen with a green floral design and gilt accents.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 317140

Accession Number: 1927.2548AB

Spice Box

Wooden spice box.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313614

Accession Number: 1937.1221AB

Each panel in this set of eight is composed of two printed textile lengths machine-stitched together, a main pattern and a border pattern, each printed in purple, yellow, blue, green and red on a cream-colored ground. The main body pattern is a small repeat of alternating red and blue floral sprays....

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: printed textile materials, cotton (textile)

GUSN: 313640

Accession Number: 2001.281.1248.1-.8

Window Hangings

This set of two partial valances and a pair of straight side curtains is made up using red plate-printed cotton. The print is made to resemble eighteenth-century pastoral toiles. Each panel is machine stitched.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: Waterhouse Wallhangings (Manufacturer)

Material: cotton (fiber), printed textile materials

GUSN: 313641

Accession Number: 2001.281.1249

Textile Panel

A single curtain panel made from block-printed cotton in a repeating pattern of a pine tree on a small grassy mound. Smaller scattered repeats of hillocks with vegetation surround the main design element. The plain woven cotton was printed in shades of yellow and brown then penciled with indigo for ...

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: Possibly Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile), block printing (relief printing process), indigo (colorant)

GUSN: 313642

Accession Number: 2001.281.1268

Textile Length

This length of twill weave wool is roller-printed in red, green and blue with repeating sprays of hibiscus flowers on a chocolate-brown ground. The top and bottom edges are machine hemmed but the widths are unhemmed selvedges. A large damaged section has been basted together with running and overha...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: printed textile materials, twill

GUSN: 313643

Accession Number: 2001.281.1269

Side Curtain

This side curtain is made from a single width of roller and block-printed cotton, lined, with six small brass curtain rings attached to the back of the gathered top edge. The dark ground chintz depicts a pair of birds flanking a large basket filled with flowers. The lining is twill-weave cotton. The...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), relief prints, chintz

GUSN: 313644

Accession Number: 2001.281.1270

Wall Pocket

This hanging wall pocket is constructed from three different printed wool textiles. The front pouch rectangle was gathered across the top edge, then stitched along the sides and down the center to a longer rectangle of similar width, forming three "pouches" of the pocket. A third textile forms the v...

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: printed textile materials, wool (textile)

GUSN: 313645

Accession Number: 2001.281.1271

Textile Remnant

This fragment of cotton depicts a repeating pattern of tiger lilies and foliage printed in green on a cream ground. Rusted nail holes along the top and sides indicate this once might have attached to a wooden frame.

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printed textile materials

GUSN: 313646

Accession Number: 2001.281.1272

Textile Remnant

This length of cotton is printed in a Rococo Revival design of lace ribbons and floral garlands with a large, centered floral spray, all on a diaper ground. The textile is hand hemmed on two edges. There is an associated paper label from the collector [see Inscriptions and Media]

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printed textile materials

GUSN: 313647

Accession Number: 2001.281.1273

Textile Remnant

This loosely woven textile fragment is printed with a vignette of a male lion attacking a zebra surrounded by flowering foliage in pink, green, purple and blue. A loose paper tag was inscribed by the donor [see Inscriptions and Media]. The stippled ground and outlines were cylinder printed, with col...

Date: 1820-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 313648

Accession Number: 2001.281.1274

Textile Remnant

This textile fragment has been cut, folded, and pinned into a small package with a handwritten note. The plain woven cotton is printed in black on a white ground with repeating stripes of Renaissance revival designs. See Inscriptions and Media.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printed textile materials

GUSN: 313649

Accession Number: 2001.281.1275

Textile Remnant

This cut fragment of velvet repp was embellished with an hand-painted river landscape, edged with pine trees. On the right side of the river are sited three small buildings, the largest of which has a water-powered wheel. A possible artist's block mark in red ink is stamped at the lower left corner ...

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313650

Accession Number: 2001.281.1276

Textile Remnant "Wandle"

This textile fragment is discharge and block printed in a polychrome floral repeat designed by William Morris. The selvedge bears his mark [see Inscriptions]. The fragment is hemmed at top and bottom edges and is selvedge width.

Date: 1884

Maker: Morris, William, 1834-1896, Morris & Co (Printer)

Material: printed textile materials, indigo (colorant)

GUSN: 313651

Accession Number: 2001.281.1277

Bedcover Fragment

This printed cotton textile was once part of a wholecloth quilt, as portions of the backing and batting remain attached at the seams. It consists of several sections pieced together to form the full width and length of the top. The cotton was printed with a red ground using a stipple cylinder, with ...

Date: ca. 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printed textile materials, indigo (colorant), madder (colorant)

GUSN: 313652

Accession Number: 2001.281.1278

Side Curtain

This cotton textile was cylinder printed in a repeating floral stripe on a stippled ground, with additional color added by block printing. It was then made up into a side curtain, machine stitched, with enameled brass rings stitched to the top edge for suspension from a rod. It is unlined, selvedge ...

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printed textile materials

GUSN: 313653

Accession Number: 2001.281.1279

Textile Remnant

This textile fragment is a section of cotton repp, cylinder printed with a broad red stripe flanked by black stripes. The red and black stripes alternate with a cream stripe decorated with repeating pink rose sprays.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printed textile materials

GUSN: 313654

Accession Number: 2001.281.1280

Textile Remnant "Devon Service"

This textile swatch consists of individually arranged threads of variously shaded blue and white rayon/linen blend glued to a paper backing in a vertically striped pattern.

Maker: Boris Kroll Fabrics Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: rayon, linen (material), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 313655

Accession Number: 2001.281.1281

Dish

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313661

Accession Number: 1927.2002

Cup Plate

Pressed glass cup plate with a scalloped edge. Patriotic design featuring the Great Seal of the United States.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 313665

Accession Number: 1933.201

Cup Plate

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313669

Accession Number: 1941.551.2

Cup Plate

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313670

Accession Number: 1941.551.3

Cup Plate

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313671

Accession Number: 1941.551.4

Cup Plate

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313672

Accession Number: 1933.102

Cup Plate

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313674

Accession Number: 1933.603

Seal

Carved ivory or bone seal with the initials S.B.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313676

Accession Number: 1931.1110

Cup Plate

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313677

Accession Number: 1927.1943

Cup Plate

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313678

Accession Number: 1933.142

Cup Plate

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313679

Accession Number: 1933.207

Cup Plate

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313680

Accession Number: 1933.210

Cup Plate

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313682

Accession Number: 1933.241

Sander

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 313683

Accession Number: 1928.715

Small Perfume Bottle

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313684

Accession Number: 1936.36

Child's Hat

Black velvet hat with straight sides and flat crown.

Maker: unknown

Material: velvet (fabric weave)

GUSN: 313685

Accession Number: 1931.1780

Painting of a Horse

Portrait of a black horse head. Oil on canvas. Large ornate gold frame. Back reads "Copy of Horse Head of Remoula."

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: Copeland, Alfred Bryant, 1840-1909 (Artist)

GUSN: 313686

Accession Number: 2006.44.3707

Shoes

A pair of velvet shoes with purple lining and a floral design.

Maker: unknown

Material: velvet (fabric weave), leather

GUSN: 313688

Accession Number: 1937.755AB

Square box with cover

Square woven wicker box with cover.

Maker: unknown

Material: wicker

GUSN: 313689

Accession Number: 2015.1.80AB

Demijohn

Glass and wicker demijohn, bulbous glass bottle with narrow neck encased in a wicker cover with woven handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), wicker

GUSN: 313690

Accession Number: 2015.1.81

Chocolate pot

Painted tin chocolate pot with hinged lid, decorated with three red leaves on black ground. Toleware.

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 313693

Accession Number: 2015.1.84

Ink bottle

Ink bottle with gothic arch pattern around body. Cobalt blue pressed glass.

Date: 1890-1940

Maker: Carter's Ink Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 313694

Accession Number: 2015.1.85

Berry spoon

Berry spoon with shell shaped bowl, oval handle has scroll designs. Silver

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313695

Accession Number: 2015.1.86

Spoon

Spoon with pointed oval bowl and gold wash interior, beading around edges of handle. Silver

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 313696

Accession Number: 2015.1.87

Salt Spoon

Salt spoon with shovel shaped bowl. Handle engraved "M A Johnson."

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 313697

Accession Number: 2015.1.88

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