Historic New England

Fireplace Enframement

Fireplace enframement. Mantel has stepped top and horizontal ribbing across center panel (below mantel shelf). Fireplace tiled with transfer printed scenic tiles depicting children, animals, and farm life.

Date: 1878

Maker: Emerson, William Ralph, 1833-1917 (Architect)

GUSN: 323010

Accession Number: 2012.58.24

Lamp

Two baluster post lighting fixtures. Cast iron base with foliate and scroll designs. Fluted frosted glass globes.

Date: 1878

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 323011

Accession Number: 2012.58.25.1AB-.2AB

Fireplace Enframement

Fireplace enframement. Mantel has a two shelf top supported by turned balusters with teardrop finials. Center panel has a diamond and cross hatch pattern, sides flanked by incised scrolls.

Date: 1878

Maker: Emerson, William Ralph, 1833-1917 (Architect)

GUSN: 323012

Accession Number: 2012.58.26

Fireplace Enframement

Fireplace enframement. Mantel shelf supported by six curved brackets with incised lines. Outermost brackets supported by baluster turned stiles. Incised decoration of concentric squares, concentric circles, and Greek key designs.

Date: 1878

Maker: Emerson, William Ralph, 1833-1917 (Architect)

GUSN: 323013

Accession Number: 2012.58.27

Fireplace Enframement

Fireplace enframement. Mantel shelf supported by four curved brackets with incised lines. Center panel has a carved central starburst flanked by incised domino designs.

Date: 1878

Maker: Emerson, William Ralph, 1833-1917 (Architect)

GUSN: 323014

Accession Number: 2012.58.28

Stove

Stove (.1) with stove lid lifter (.2). Warming ovens, baking ovens, and six-burner cooking surface. Model No. 6. Walker & Pratt Manufacturing. Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1879

Maker: Walker & Pratt Manufacturing Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 323015

Accession Number: 2012.58.29.1-.2

Water Tank

Water tank on stand.

Date: 1879

Maker: unknown

Material: copper (metal)

GUSN: 323016

Accession Number: 2012.58.30

Napkins

Pair of napkins, blocks in shades of blue, small purple squares.

Date: 2016

Maker: Marimekko (Manufacturer) Nixholm, Holly (Maker)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 323068

Accession Number: 2016.99.4.3-.4

Napkin

Single napkin, light pink ground with darker pink polka dots.

Date: 2015

Maker: Marimekko (Manufacturer) Nixholm, Holly (Maker)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 323069

Accession Number: 2016.99.4.5

Napkins

Three napkins, white ground, abstract red flowers with black center surrounded by white border.

Date: 2015

Maker: Marimekko (Manufacturer) Nixholm, Holly (Maker)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 323070

Accession Number: 2016.99.4.6-.8

Napkin

Single napkin, light pink ground with abstract red flowers

Date: 2015

Maker: Marimekko (Manufacturer) Nixholm, Holly (Maker)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 323071

Accession Number: 2016.99.4.9

Napkins

Pair of napkins, light blue ground, dark blue/purple polka dots, and blue scroll.

Date: 2015

Maker: Marimekko (Manufacturer) Nixholm, Holly (Maker) Rimala, Annika, 1936-2014

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 323072

Accession Number: 2016.99.4.10-.11

Napkin

Single napkin, red/orange ground, squares and rectangles of reddish purple, gray, blue, beige.

Date: 2015

Maker: Marimekko (Manufacturer) Nixholm, Holly (Maker)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 323073

Accession Number: 2016.99.4.12

Christmas Tree Ornaments

Twelve assorted Christmas ornaments [2011.80.101.1.1-.12], various shapes and colors. In original box [2011.80.101.2ab].

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: Coby Glass Products Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 323090

Accession Number: 2011.80.101.1-.2AB

Christmas Tree Ornaments

Eleven Christmas ornaments, various colors in ball form [2011.80.102.1.1-.12]. Model No. 2089. In orginal box [2011.80.102.2ab].

Date: 1945-1952

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 323091

Accession Number: 2011.80.102.1-.2AB

Christmas Tree Ornaments

Twelve assorted Christmas ornaments. Various shapes and colors [2011.80.103.1.1-.12]. In original box [2011.80.103.2ab].

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 323092

Accession Number: 2011.80.103.1-.2AB

Fragment, Textile

These are three overall glazed pieces with one attached paper label on each. They represent a succession of vases containing a bouquet of different flowers, in naturalist colors, on a brown background. Characters in a landscape with architectures are painted on the vases whose handle has the shape o...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House (Manufacturer)

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323152

Accession Number: 2012.126.2.1-.3

Fragment, Textile

This is an overall glazed piece with one attached paper label, representing stripes alternating big red, pink and white roses, lilacs, and daisies, in naturalistic colors.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House (Manufacturer)

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323153

Accession Number: 2012.126.3

Fragment, Textile

These overall pieces with one attached paper label represent two stripes side by side, filed by a rosebush, on a geometric background made with dots lines, circles and unclosed triangles. Between these undulating stripes there are flowers and sorts of seaweeds which outline is simply drawn in brown,...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House (Manufacturer)

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323154

Accession Number: 2012.126.4.1-.2

Fragment, Textile

These overall pieces with one attached paper label are glazed. They represent two undulating lianas to which many flowers are attached, as if they grew up around this sort of column. In the background there is a non-figurative pattern forming sorts of waves of ropes. The set is red but the flowers ...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323155

Accession Number: 2012.126.5.1-.2

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label is totally and uniformly covered by small red leaves on branches, on a cream background.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House (Manufacturer)

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323156

Accession Number: 2012.126.6

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with two attached paper labels is glazed. It represents stripes with white, black and purple checks, delimited by thin black stripes, alternating with a purple background imitating stains.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House (Dealer) Clarence House (Manufacturer)

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323157

Accession Number: 2012.126.7

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label represents several pastoral scenes, in blue and white, among which we can only see one complete, in the middle right of the sample. At the foot of a fountain adorned with putti keeping a basin up, and a lion's head spitting water in the watering place...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323158

Accession Number: 2012.126.8

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label represent a floral repeated pattern in very lively colors (red flowers, green leaves, yellow background). The melon flowers are highlighted by the abundant large leaves.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), nylon, linen (material), printing (process)

GUSN: 323159

Accession Number: 2012.126.9

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label represent very lively floral patterns, with red, yellow, pink and purple flowers, green leaves and stems, curved in a naturalist way, on a white background.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323160

Accession Number: 2012.126.10

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label is entirely covered with rinceaux (foliage, arabesques) interlaced to create volutes between which there are small flowers. This pattern is in pink on a cream background.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323161

Accession Number: 2012.126.11

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label represents the thin trunk of a tree, which branches are in bloom. But the flowers have different shapes and different colors, on a cream background.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323162

Accession Number: 2012.126.12

Fragment, Textile

This is an overall piece with one attached paper label. It represents big acanthus leaves in sand color on a brown background. The leaves are very curved and animated, and they go the one in front of the other.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323163

Accession Number: 2012.126.13

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label is a glazed fabric. It represents two naked vine arbors with some decorative flowers in between and on either side. These arbors surround big flowers bouquets. Branches of flowers close the pattern on the left and the right extreme sides of the sample...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323164

Accession Number: 2012.126.14

Fragment, Textile

This is an overall piece with one attached paper label, representing repeated stylized floral patterns, in a blue and cream background forming like a check pattern. Each motif is included in a sort of brown and cream floral cartridge, in which a stylized blue flower spreads.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323165

Accession Number: 2012.126.15

Fragment, Textile

This glazed overall piece with one attached paper label represents friezes of palm's stems forming volutes and containing different flowers in their rolling-up. The colors are naturalistic, on a cream background.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323166

Accession Number: 2012.126.16

Fragment, Textile

These two overall pieces with one attached paper label for the first one and two attached paper labels for the second one, represent an alternation of wide and thin stripes. The wide stripes contain rich vases with big flowers in it, on a blue background, while the thin stripes contain two couples o...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323167

Accession Number: 2012.126.17.1-.2

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label is a glazed fabric. It represents an alternation of stripes containing ribbons of flowers, one with more imposing bouquets than the other. The main colors are pink, purple, yellow and blue-grey (for the leaves and the ribbons). The background forms th...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323168

Accession Number: 2012.126.18

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label is a glazed fabric representing thorny branches of flowers in naturalistic and lively colors, on a light brown background adorned by some stripes. The title printed on this sample LET .de MON JAR refers to the full title in French: LETTRES DE MON...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323169

Accession Number: 2012.126.19

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label represents a repeated scene: at the foreground big flowers dominate the scene, represented in big size and in pink, beige and blue; behind them is a house surrounded by a garden with fens, all represented in a purple monochrome. The French title mea...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323170

Accession Number: 2012.126.20

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label represents a repeated pattern of two similar scenes. The first one presents two houses the one next to the other, in front of a mill. From the houses go giant flowers that dominate the buildings. Two birds are seating on some of the stems. In front of...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323172

Accession Number: 2012.126.21

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label is a glazed fabric. It represents pink, blue and brown flowers on two main branches, on a light brown background adorned with vegetal volutes.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323173

Accession Number: 2012.126.22

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label is a glazed fabric. It represents branches of flowers arranged like stripes, vertically, in a decorative way as the branches draw serpentine lines. On them, many different flowers show their lively colors, highlighted by the cream background animated ...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323174

Accession Number: 2012.126.23

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label is a glazed fabric. It represents different flowers in naturalistic colors on a cream background. They are depicted as if it was an aquarelle, and some leaves are highlighted by brown strokes like in a sketch.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323175

Accession Number: 2012.126.24

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label represents an alternation of stripes formed by Corinthian columns on top of each other, and flowers and plants winded to form a column. The dominant colors are brown, beige, old red, dark orange, light blue and light green.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Clarence House

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323176

Accession Number: 2012.126.25

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with two attached paper labels represents ornamental Indian patterns, with burning volutes which contours are highlighted by yellow lines. The other dominant colors are red, green and pink.

Date: 1980-2005

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323177

Accession Number: 2012.126.26

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with two attached paper labels is a glazed fabric representing an alternation of large raspberry-colored stripes and stripes composed of flowers and leaves - among them anemones and ferns - on a white background.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Brunschwig & Fils, Inc.

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process), chintz

GUSN: 323178

Accession Number: 2012.126.27

Large Snowshoe Chair

Chair with a woven rawhide seat and back. Arched crest, bent wood arms and legs. One of a pair, the smaller of which has brass label: Hand Made Sno-Shu Chairs, Vermont Tubbs Inc. Wallingford, VT. Used at a house in Newton, Massachusetts.

Date: 1955-1965

Maker: Vermont Tubbs, Inc. (Maker)

Material: maple (wood), rawhide

GUSN: 327383

Accession Number: 2017.66.1

Dressing Table

Federal style Portsmouth dressing table with tapered reeded legs, mushroom shaped brass knobs, and heart-shaped ivory inlaid escutcheons.

Date: 1810-1815

Maker: Judkins and Senter (Maker)

Material: mahogany (wood), brass (alloy), ivory (tooth component)

GUSN: 327384

Accession Number: 2017.67.1

Wentworth and Kimball Family Card Table

One of a pair of Portsmouth-made Federal card tables. Each table has a folding rectangular hinged top with tapered legs, one of which is a swing leg. Oval veneer panel on apron with inlaid bell flowers trailing down the legs.

Date: 1800-1815

Maker: Judkins and Senter (Maker)

GUSN: 327385

Accession Number: 2017.67.2

Wentworth and Kimball Family Card Table

One of a pair of Portsmouth-made Federal card tables. Each table has a folding rectangular hinged top with tapered legs, one of which is a swing leg. There is an oval veneer panel on the apron and inlaid bell flowers trailing down the legs.

Date: 1800-1815

Maker: Judkins and Senter (Maker)

GUSN: 327386

Accession Number: 2017.67.3

Small Snowshoe Chair

Folding chair with a woven rawhide seat and back. Back folds down. Arched crest, low rounded seat on semii circular leg supports. One of a pair.This one has brass label: Hand Made Sno-Shu Chairs, Vermont Tubbs Inc. Wallingford, VT. Used at a house in Newton, Massachusetts.

Date: 1960s

Maker: Vermont Tubbs, Inc. (Maker)

Material: maple (wood), rawhide

GUSN: 327387

Accession Number: 2017.66.2

Chair

Spanish-style armchair with turned stretchers, gold-painted flame finials, and elaborately curved arms. Yellow vinyl upholstery under trimmed red velvet covers with fringe.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 327388

Accession Number: 1978.86.1

Oil Lamp

Oil lamp with a molded metal base on four feet and a glass globe. One of a pair.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 327398

Accession Number: 1951.49

Pattern for an Alphabet Sampler

Framed paper pattern for an alphabet sampler. Label - Pattern of Gt. Gt. Aunt Hannah Gates Percival - Lenox, Mass. (B. 23 Sept. 1775 D. 27 May 1791).

Date: 1790

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 327629

Accession Number: 1947.41

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