Historic New England

Looking Glass

Large rectangular gilt mirror.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259614

Accession Number: 1968.108

High Chest

Painted pine and maple high chest.. Two short drawers over three on top of frame with drawer. S scroll legs, shaped front and side stretchers, bun feet.

Date: 1703-1723

Maker: Titcomb, Edmund, 1682-1723

GUSN: 259616

Accession Number: 2.2011

Portrait of a woman, traditionally believed to be Mrs. Spofford of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Sitter has dark brown hair and brown eyes. She is wearing a black dress with white lace frill collar with scalloped edges. A gold chain with square pendant is draped over the top edge of the lace collar. The...

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259619

Accession Number: 1919.252

Portrait of Mrs. Amelia White Peabody

Portrait of Mrs. W.B.O. Peabody (Amelia White Peabody) of Springfield, Massachsuetts. Sitter has light brown hair and is wearing a black dress with white fichu and red shawl. Daughter of Major Moses White. Copied from the original by Chester Harding. Oval frame.

Maker: Harding, Chester, 1792-1866 (Artist)

GUSN: 259620

Accession Number: 1964.149

Sideboard

Empire sideboard with carved splashboard.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), veneer, pine (wood), ash (wood)

GUSN: 259621

Accession Number: 1991.31

Bookcase

Mahogany bookcase

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 259625

Accession Number: 1991.32

Plot plan, Waltham, Mass.

Framed plot plan of the Lyman property, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259626

Accession Number: 1991.33

Gate-leg table

Folding gate-leg table

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259628

Accession Number: 1991.34

Table lamp

Empire table lamp with metal shade.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259630

Accession Number: 1951.190

Porcelain fish bowl and carved stand

Porcelain fish bowl with underglaze of blue flowers and insects [.1]; Carved wooden stand [.2].

Date: 1760-1780

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259632

Accession Number: 1981.37

Porcelain fish bowl

Porcelain fish bowl with underglaze of blue naturalistic flowers and insects.

Date: ca. 1780

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 259634

Accession Number: 1981.37.1

Carved stand

Carved wooden stand.

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259635

Accession Number: 1981.37.2

Porcelain fish bowl and carved stand

Porcelain fish bowl with blue chrysanthemum pattern and carved wooden stand.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259636

Accession Number: 1981.38

Porcelain fish bowl

Porcelain fish bowl with blue chrysanthemum pattern.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 259637

Accession Number: 1981.38.1

Stand

Carved wooden five-legged stand for large fish bowl.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259638

Accession Number: 1981.38.2

Pair of joint stools

Pair of joint stools.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259639

Accession Number: 1978.89

Joint stool

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259640

Accession Number: 1978.89.1

Joint stool

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259641

Accession Number: 1978.89.2

Grand Piano

Grand piano.

Maker: Henry F. Miller Piano Forte Establishment (Maker)

GUSN: 259642

Accession Number: 1978.112

Chinese Chippendale-style cabinet

Chinese Chippendale-style cabinet. Pair of glass doors with octagon shaped fretwork; three moveable interior wooden shelves, salmon colored fabric tacked to back. Thin legs with oval cut outs and strapwork designs; Carved wooden pagoda-like roof with flat top and scalloped edges.

Date: 19th century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 259645

Accession Number: 1977.72

Stencil

Paper stencil for decorating furniture and walls; two sprigs forming a circle.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), stencil paper

GUSN: 259650

Accession Number: 2002.32.23B

Stencil

Paper stencil for decorating furniture and walls; two springs criss-crossed.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), stencils (tools), stencil paper

GUSN: 259651

Accession Number: 2002.32.23C

Envelope

Paper envelope; black paint on front with gold stenciled emblem.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), stenciling, paint (coating)

GUSN: 259652

Accession Number: 2002.32.24A

Stencil

Paper stencil; three-part emblem.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), stencil paper, stencils (tools)

GUSN: 259653

Accession Number: 2002.32.24B

Linoleum

Linoleum fragment with pattern of L-shaped tiles in black, gray, and white with slight marbling detail, reused in woodshed at 291 Hillside Street, Milton, Massachusetts.

Date: c. 1880-1950

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 359697

Accession Number: 2022.32.1

Plate

Earthenware plate hand-painted with swirling floral designs and three butterflies. Signed and dated on the underside.

Date: 1890

Maker: Ware, Alice Cunningham, 1851-1937

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 359701

Accession Number: 2022.34.2

Portrait medallion \n Salem, Massachusetts, 1805-11\n Painted pine

Two-sided carved and painted George Washington profile portrait medallion, carved by Samuel McIntire. Composed of two medallions fastened back-to-back, the figures carved in high relief with George Washington facing to the right in a blue-painted military uniform with yellow-painted facings and epau...

Date: 1805-1811

Maker: McIntire, Samuel, 1757-1811 (Carver)

Material: carvings (visual works), raised (form attribute), painting (image-making)

GUSN: 359704

Accession Number: 2022.36.1

Punch Bowl

Punch bowl, China, 1750-80. Hard-paste porcelain with scalloped body and colored enamel floral decoration. There is a hand written label on the base of the bowl.

Date: 1750-1780

Maker: unknown

Material: hard paste porcelain, enamel (fused coating)

GUSN: 359887

Accession Number: 2022.44.1

Bowl

Hard-paste porcelain bowl with underglaze blue and later overglaze red, green, and gilding decoration with flower baskets, China, 1740-50.

Date: 1740-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: hard paste porcelain

GUSN: 359888

Accession Number: 2022.44.2

Imari Dish

Hard-paste porcelain Imari dish with underglaze blue and overglaze iron-red and gilt floral decoration, China, 1730-1750.

Date: 1730-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: hard paste porcelain

GUSN: 359889

Accession Number: 2022.44.3

Imari Dish

Hard-paste porcelain Imari dish with underglaze blue and overglaze iron-red and gilt floral decoration. China, 1730-50

Date: 1730-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: hard paste porcelain

GUSN: 359890

Accession Number: 2022.44.4

Dish

Small hard-paste porcelain dish with colored enamesl and gilt decoration with an eagle in the center, from the Edward Carrington service, Salem, Massachusetts. China 1810-15

Date: 1810-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: hard paste porcelain

GUSN: 359891

Accession Number: 2022.44.5

Bottle

Double gourd-shaped bottle with stopper, earthenware with enamel and gilt decoration. Japan, 1850-1900.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 359892

Accession Number: 2022.44.6AB

Crazy Quilt

Embroidered silk satin fabric patches edged with pink lace. Likely made by Helen E. Endicott (1868-1930) of Canton, Massachusetts.

Date: 1892

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 359894

Accession Number: 2022.46.1

Crazy Quilt

Patchwork quilt, known as "crazy quilts", made from velvet patches in a variety of colors and patterns. The quilt has the initials "H.E.E." embroidered on one of the patches, and another has the date "1892" inscribed in ink. Likely made by Helen E. Endicott (1868-1930) of Canton, Massachusetts.

Date: c. 1890s

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 359895

Accession Number: 2022.46.2

Side chair\n Isaac Vose and Son, Thomas Wightman carver\n Boston, 1824-25\n Mahogany, birch

Mahogany and birch side chair, 1824-1825, by Isaac Vose and Son, THomas Wightman carver in Boston. The chair is made in the Classical style.

Date: 1824-1825

Maker: Vose, Isaac (American cabinetmaker, ca. 1768-1823) (Cabinetmaker) Wightman, Thomas (Carver)

Material: mahogany (wood), birch (wood)

GUSN: 359899

Accession Number: 2022.47.1

Painting, Schooner "Wallace"

Framed painting depicting a ship with three masts, billowing sails, and several colorful flags including the American flag at the stern or back of the ship (right side of painting). Mountainous landscape to the bow or front (left side of painting). Mostly cloudy sky; waves.

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 359900

Accession Number: 1958.503

Northeast Indigenous Basket

Large rectangular splint basket with stamped decoration

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 359953

Accession Number: 2022.74.1

Rocking Chair

Turned wooden rocking chair, caned back, missing seat, remnants of grey paint on legs and rockers.

Maker: unknown

Material: turning (shaping process), caning

GUSN: 359969

Accession Number: 1987.1146

Documents related to Florence Addison, William Sumner Appleton's long-time assistant, and Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow.

No description

Maker: Anonymous (Donor)

GUSN: 359970

Accession Number: TR2511.1

Quilt

Patchwork quilt with front composed of various printed cotton pieces and backing in Bicentennial fabrics.

Date: c. 1876-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 359982

Accession Number: 2022.69.5

Painting

Framed oil on canvas painting of the barn on the Cuthbertson family farm, Revere, Massachusetts, by Nathaniel Rudd, 1886. The painting depicts the Greek Revival house on the right and barn on the left from the road with cows, workers, and two individuals riding bicycles. Signed and dated lower left ...

Maker: Rudd, Nathaniel

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas, gilding

GUSN: 359985

Accession Number: 2022.1.2

Wallpaper Sample Book

W.H.S.Lloyd sample book of "Japanese Grass Cloths for Wall Coverings"

Date: undated

Maker: unknown

Material: grass (plant material), weaving

GUSN: 360040

Accession Number: 2022.99.1

"Green Worm" Wallpaper

Vermiculated light green pattern on darker green ground.

Date: ca. 1808

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 360042

Accession Number: 1971.2180

Webelos Scouts of America uniform

Blue long sleeve uniform shirt with blue buttons, Webelos scout decorated with patches, ribbons, and pins.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 360460

Accession Number: 2023.3.1

Screened Cake Stand

Screened cake stand. Stands on four legs with hinged door. One door in front. Solid wood back and wire screen at each end and at each side of the door. Shelf has a half-circle cut out in front.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, wire

GUSN: 360537

Accession Number: 1938.1384