Historic New England

"Lavalier Opal Hero" earrings

A pair of "Lavalier Opal Hero" earrings by Paspaley. Comprised of a large, round, cultured, white pearl in a 18k rose gold "net" with Australian opal cabachons, dangling oval pearl with 18k rose gold cap on bottom, and diamond encrusted gold ear findings. With original box and paperwork.

Maker: Paspaley

Material: rose gold, opal, diamond (mineral), pearl (animal material)

GUSN: 364642

Accession Number: 2024.20.2

"The Tree of Life" Hooked Rug

"The Tree of Life," a large decorative hooked pictoral rug / wall hanging of wool on linen mounted on a wooden stretcher with an oak frame. Image of a fanciful flowering tree with fruit, birds, and insects with a sheep and cow standing below on a cream background.

Date: 20th century

Maker: Briggs, Florence, 1922-2007 (Maker)

Material: crewel wool, wool (textile), linen (material), oak (wood), wall hangings

GUSN: 364684

Accession Number: 2024.34.1

Portrait, Ona Judge Staines

Contemporary portrait of Ona Judge, depicting a Black woman in early-nineteenth century dress. Made from acrylic paint and newspaper accounts.

Date: 2024

Maker: Michaud, Maya

Material: acrylic paint, newspapers

GUSN: 364690

Accession Number: 2024.35.1

Painting Study, "Ona Judge Staines"

Preliminary study for "Ona Judge Staines" portrait, depicting a Black woman in early-nineteenth century dress. Made from acrylic paint and newspaper.

Date: 2024

Maker: unknown

Material: acrylic paint, newspapers

GUSN: 364691

Accession Number: 2024.35.2

Study, "Ona Judge Staines"

Preliminary study for "Ona Judge Staines" portrait, depicting a Black woman in early-nineteenth century dress. Made from acrylic paint and newspaper.

Date: 2024

Maker: unknown

Material: acrylic paint, newspapers

GUSN: 364692

Accession Number: 2024.35.3

Preliminary sketch "Ona Judge Staines"

Preliminary sketch for "Ona Judge Staines" portrait by Maya Michaud, depicting female form in early nineteenth-century dress.

Date: 2024

Maker: unknown

Material: ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 364693

Accession Number: 2024.35.4

Preliminary sketch, "Ona Judge Staines"

Preliminary sketch for "Ona Judge Staines" portrait by Maya Michaud.

Date: 2024

Maker: unknown

Material: ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 364694

Accession Number: 2024.35.5

Hand-carved Aesthetic Cabinet with Ceramic Plaques

A hand carved wooden cabinet in the aesthetic movement style by amatuer carver John Lord Hayes ornamented with ceramic plaques. Top of cabinet has doors opening on left and right sides. Front with one large door revealing interior with two shelves, lined in red fabric (not original). Exterior body f...

Date: c.1880

Maker: Hayes, John Lord, 1812-1887

Material: ceramic tile, carving (processes), encaustic painting (technique), raised (form attribute), wood by composition or origin, brass (alloy), leather, tooling, hinges (hardware), panel doors, panels (ornament areas)

GUSN: 364699

Accession Number: 2024.36.1

Mantelpiece

Colonial Revival-style mantelpiece by Irving & Casson for the Residence of J.M. Thayer, Quinebaug (Thompson), Connecticut, 1893. The mantelpiece bears the original label of its maker, Irving & Casson, whose specialty was interior woodwork. According to the label, the mantelpiece was made of wood and...

Date: 1893

Maker: Irving & Casson - A. H. Davenport Co.

Material: wood (plant material), carving (processes)

GUSN: 364899

Accession Number: 2024.47.1AB

Child's Dance Costume\n

A child's red knit leotard.

Date: 1960-1965

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 366234

Accession Number: 2024.17.9

Child's Dance Costume\n

A child's dance costume in three pieces. Worn with a red leotard (2024.17.9), this costume consists of a satin covered round headpiece with sheer, red veil, a red satin collar with a row of silver sequins along the bottom, and a red satin skirt of many rectangular panels outlined in silver sequins a...

Date: 1960-1965

Maker: unknown

Material: satin, net (textile), chiffon, sequins (spangles), jingle bells

GUSN: 366235

Accession Number: 2024.17.10A-C

\n Child's Dance Costume

A child's dance costume in three pieces. Worn with a red leotard (2024.17.9), this costume consists of a satin covered headband, square red satin collar with a "v" of blue sequins at center, and a short, red satin skirt adorned with blue sequin "v"s.

Date: 1960-1965

Maker: unknown

Material: satin, paper by composition or origin, sequins (spangles)

GUSN: 366236

Accession Number: 2024.17.11A-C

Child's Dance Costume

A child's dance costume headband made of punched silver color metal with a small, faux paper flower.

Date: 1960-1965

Maker: unknown

Material: metal

GUSN: 366237

Accession Number: 2024.17.12

Wallpaper Sample, Jean Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, France; SM acc # 87.2826; 2 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367108

Accession Number: 2024.55.2

Wallpaper Sample, Jean Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, France; SM acc # 87.2827; 3 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367109

Accession Number: 2024.55.3

Wallpaper Sample, USA; SM acc # 87.2828; 4 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367110

Accession Number: 2024.55.4

Wallpaper Sample, Jean Zuber & Cie?, Rixheim, France?; SM acc # 87.2829; 5 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367111

Accession Number: 2024.55.5

Wallpaper sample, Jeffrey & Co., London, England; SM acc # 87.2830; 6 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367112

Accession Number: 2024.55.6

Wallpaper sample; SM acc # 87.2832; 7 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367113

Accession Number: 2024.55.7

Wallpaper sample, Jeffrey & Co., London, England; SM acc # 87.2832; 8 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367114

Accession Number: 2024.55.8

Wallpaper sample, Jeffrey & Co., London, England; SM acc # 87.2833; 9 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367115

Accession Number: 2024.55.9

Wallpaper sample; SM acc # 87.2834; 10 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367116

Accession Number: 2024.55.10

Wallpaper sample: SM acc # 87.2835; 11 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367117

Accession Number: 2024.55.11

Wallpaper sample, Jean Zuber & Cie.?., Rixheim, France?; SM acc # 87.2836; 12 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367118

Accession Number: 2024.55.12

Wallpaper sample, Jean Zuber & Cie.?., Rixheim, France?; SM acc # 87.2838; 13 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367119

Accession Number: 2024.55.13

Wallpaper sample; SM acc # 87.2839; 14 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367120

Accession Number: 2024.55.14

Wallpaper sample, Jean Zuber & Cie., Rixheim, France; SM acc # 87.2840; 15 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367121

Accession Number: 2024.55.15

Wallpaper sample, Jean Zuber & Cie.?, Rixheim, France; SM acc # 87.2842; 17 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367122

Accession Number: 2024.55.16

Wallpaper sample, Sunflower, William Morris & Co., Jeffrey & Co., London, England; SM acc # 87.2843; 18 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367123

Accession Number: 2024.55.17

Wallpaper sample, Metaxin-Yorick, Austria; SM acc # 87.2844; 19 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367124

Accession Number: 2024.55.18

Wallpaper sample, Jean Zuber & cie., Rixheim, France; SM acc # 87.2845; 20 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367125

Accession Number: 2024.55.19

Wallpaper sample, Desfosse & Karth, France; SM acc # 87.2846; 21 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367126

Accession Number: 2024.55.20

Wallpaper sample, Jeffrey & Co., London, England; SM acc # 87.2847; 22 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367127

Accession Number: 2024.55.21

Wallpaper sample, Jeffrey & Co., London, England; SM acc # 87.2848; 23 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367128

Accession Number: 2024.55.22

Wallpaper sample, Jeffrey & Co., London, England; SM acc # 87.2849; 24 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367129

Accession Number: 2024.55.23

Wallpaper sample, Jean Zuber & Cie., Rixheim, France; SM acc # 87.2850; 25 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367130

Accession Number: 2024.55.24

Wallpaper sample, Jean Zuber & Cie., Rixheim, France; SM acc # 87.2851; 26 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367131

Accession Number: 2024.55.25

Wallpaper sample; SM acc # 87.2852; 27 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367132

Accession Number: 2024.55.26

Wallpaper sample; SM acc # 87.2853; 28 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367133

Accession Number: 2024.55.27

Wallpaper sample; SM acc # 87.2854; 29 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367134

Accession Number: 2024.55.28

Wallpaper sample, Jeffrey & Co., London, England; SM acc # 87.2855; 30 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367135

Accession Number: 2024.55.29

Wallpaper sample, Jean Zuber & Cie., Rixheim, France; SM acc # 87.2856; 31 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367136

Accession Number: 2024.55.30

Wallpaper sample, USA; SM acc # 87.2857; 32 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367137

Accession Number: 2024.55.31

Wallpaper sample, Desfosse & Karth, France; SM acc # 87.2858; 33 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367138

Accession Number: 2024.55.32

Wallpaper sample; SM acc # 87.2859; 34 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367139

Accession Number: 2024.55.33

Wallpaper sample, Jean Zuber & Cie.?, Rixheim, France?; SM acc # 87.2860; 35 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367140

Accession Number: 2024.55.34

Wallpaper sample, England; SM acc # 87.2861; 36 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367141

Accession Number: 2024.55.35

Wallpaper sample; SM acc # 87.2862; 37 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367142

Accession Number: 2024.55.36

Wallpaper sample, Jean Zuber & Cie., Rixheim, France; SM acc # 87.2863; 38 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367143

Accession Number: 2024.55.37

Wallpaper sample, Germany; SM acc # 87.2864; 39 of 68

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 367144

Accession Number: 2024.55.38

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