Historic New England

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

Fragment, Textile

This is an overall piece with one attached paper label, depicting, on a coral background, white, grey and purple flowers.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Brunschwig & Fils, Inc.

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323179

Accession Number: 2012.126.28

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with two attached paper labels represents thin branches diagonally positioned to create movement and dynamism. Different flowers grow up on them, and birds are flying between them or are seating on them. We have an impression of light thanks to the thin strokes and the light color...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Brunschwig & Fils, Inc.

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323180

Accession Number: 2012.126.29

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with two attached paper labels is a glazed fabric, showing big flowers' bouquets depicted like an oil painting, linked the one the other with circling blue-grey ribbons. The colors are very pastel, like the light yellow background.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Brunschwig & Fils, Inc.

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323181

Accession Number: 2012.126.30

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label is a glazed fabric, repeating a geometric floral composition: one leaf is surrounded by another leaf viewed from the side. This motif is framed in a sort of geometric stem. An edge on the left of the sample presents bigger leaves in diamonds. The plan...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Brunschwig & Fils, Inc.

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323209

Accession Number: 2012.126.31

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with one attached paper label represents stripes of pink, blue and green stylized flowers surrounded by their sides by stylized pink lotus flowers and volutes. These repeated patterns are separated by green stripes with a thinner yellow stripe in their middle. The background is wh...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Brunschwig & Fils, Inc.

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 323212

Accession Number: 2012.126.32

Fragment, Textile

This is an overall piece with two attached paper labels, representing naturalistic red and white flowers with long leaves closely depicted, on a black background.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Brunschwig & Fils, Inc.

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

GUSN: 323213

Accession Number: 2012.126.33

Fragment, Textile

This overall piece with two attached paper labels represents stylized white snowflakes looking more like ornamental flowers, enriched with some yellow elements, on a forest green background. The snowflakes are spaced out the one from the other and are intaglio sewed with regard to the background.

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Brunschwig & Fils, Inc.

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

GUSN: 323216

Accession Number: 2012.126.34

Fragment, Textile

These overall pieces with three attached paper labels on each represent a repeated pattern of two flowers with leaves at the bottom of their stems and smaller flowers and leaves looking like their come from the top of the big flowers. Around these flowers, a serpentine line draws curves on the backg...

Date: 1980-2008

Maker: Brunschwig & Fils, Inc.

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

GUSN: 323217

Accession Number: 2012.126.35.1-.6

Portrait of Deacon John Stone (1781-1849)

Half-length portrait of Deacon John Stone painted against a grey, green background wearing a black coat, white collar, and stock.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paintings (visual works), canvas

GUSN: 325791

Accession Number: 2017.39.1

Drop Leaf Table. Walnut. Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1750.

Queen Anne oval top, drop leaf table with cabriole legs and pad feet.

Date: ca. 1750

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood)

GUSN: 325792

Accession Number: 2017.39.2

Belt buckle

Bronze belt buckle sculpted using the direct welding method in the form of a human figure with large, outstretched feathered wings, legs extended to the proper right, and a featureless face. The wings form the top edge of the buckle. A vaguely human shape is stretched in a prone position beneath and...

Date: ca. 1975

Maker: Yurman, David, 1942- (Designer)

Material: bronze (metal), sculpting

GUSN: 325807

Accession Number: 2017.40.1

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