Historic New England

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

"Star Wars" Wallpaper

Two rolls of wallpaper with spaceship motif in blue, red, gray and gold on white ground.

Date: 1980

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), machine-made, printing (process)

GUSN: 187822

Accession Number: 2004.7AB

"The Lamp between the Lights"

Painting of Historic New England's Rocky Hill Meeting House, view through window. Lamp hangs from ceiling inside.

Date: 2002

Maker: unknown

Material: watercolor (paint), cold-pressed paper, gilding, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 187824

Accession Number: 2004.9

Drapery

One of two seven-sided curtain components; each is a mirror of the other; yellow silk with pink stylized flowers throughout; three inch border of yellow ground and pink flowers set in from bottom edges; bottom edges have one inch wide border of yellow ground and pink flowers; yellow and pink silk-wr...

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 187830

Accession Number: 2005.14.5

Drapery

One of two seven-sided curatin components; each is a mirror of the other; yellow silk with pink stylized flowers throughout; three inch border of yellow ground and pink flowers set in from bottom edges; bottom edges have one inch wide border of yellow ground and pink flowers; yellow and pink silk-wr...

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 187831

Accession Number: 2005.14.5.1

Drapery

One of two seven-sided curatin components; each is a mirror of the other; yellow silk with pink stylized flowers throughout; three inch border of yellow ground and pink flowers set in from bottom edges; bottom edges have one inch wide border of yellow ground and pink flowers; yellow and pink silk-wr...

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 187832

Accession Number: 2005.14.5.2

Drapery

Large trapezoidal curtain swag; yellow silk ground with pink stylized flowers throughout; no fring on borders.

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 187833

Accession Number: 2005.14.6

Drapery

Five-sided curtain component; yellow silk with pink stylized flowers; no fringe on border; remnant of a wide tape band at top; tack holes on top; lining has been removed.

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 187834

Accession Number: 2005.14.7

Drapery Lining

Rectangular pieces of yellow silk curtain lining.

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 187835

Accession Number: 2005.14.8

Drapery lining

One rectangular piece of yellow silk curtain lining

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 187836

Accession Number: 2005.14.9

Drapery Lining

Yellow silk piece of curtain lining

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 187838

Accession Number: 2005.14.10

Drapery Lining

Yellow silk piece of curtain lining

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 187839

Accession Number: 2005.14.11

Drapery Lining

Yellow silk piece of curtain lining

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 187840

Accession Number: 2005.14.12

Drapery Lining

Yellow silk piece of curtain lining

Date: 1824

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile)

GUSN: 187841

Accession Number: 2005.14.13

Stretcher, Curtain box

Long and narrow cardboard box with an open top/end and open end/bottom with brown paper held on with rubberbands. Box has a side seam. There are inscriptions stamped on in black ink on the front and back.

Date: 1940

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard

GUSN: 187842

Accession Number: 2005.15.1

Box, "Sanifit Vaccination Shield"

White paper box with red print (size of a card game box); directions for use on the back of the box.

Date: 1950-1970

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard, plastic (organic material), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 187843

Accession Number: 2004.1.8

Figurine, "Shepherd with Sheep"

Round base, shepherd sitting between two sheep, ceramic with different colors painted.

Date: 1760-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material), ceramic glaze

GUSN: 187844

Accession Number: 2004.1.9

Pitcher

White ceramic pitcher with blue coloring; long c-shaped turned handle, spout on opposite side, ceramic grapes, leaves and flowers decoration; tall base.

Date: 1855-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 187845

Accession Number: 2004.1.11

Tea caddy

Tea caddy with ivory finial at top quillwork, curled paper on sides, in form of leaves (golden) and circles. Escutcheonsin the front, wooden string work inlay.

Date: 1710-1740

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 187846

Accession Number: 2004.1.12

Cream Pitcher

Creamer in shape of cow with brown speckle of glaze overall, cow's tail is handle, spout is open mouth-small triangular shaped lid.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 187847

Accession Number: 2004.1.13

Flask

Flask in form of a book, no lid. Speckled color: brown, beige and green.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 187848

Accession Number: 2004.1.14

Teapot

Teapot with c-shaped handle and spout on opposite side, lid in shape of hexagon wiht lamb on top. Engine turning pattern in green, brown, yellow, beige and two medallionson each side with floral surroundings.

Date: 1780-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 187849

Accession Number: 2004.1.15AB

Pitcher

Bennington Pottery Pitcher

Date: 1849

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 187850

Accession Number: 2004.1.16