Historic New England

Cup and saucer

Cup and saucer, decorated in polychrome enamels with scene of two women, man, child in front of house, landscape at right rear; purple diaper scallop and floral swag border

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357627

Accession Number: 1976.63.1AB

Cup and saucer

Cup and saucer, decorated in polychrome enamels with scene of two women, man, child in front of house, landscape at right rear; purple diaper scallop and floral swag border

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357628

Accession Number: 1976.63.2AB

Teacup and saucer

Teacup and saucer, decorated in polychrome enamels with pierced vase containing flowers, indects, and bird by flowers; red diaper scalloped rim with insects in cartouches

Date: ca. 1775-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357629

Accession Number: 1976.64AB

Teacup and saucer

Teacup and saucer, decorated in polychrome enamels with scene of figures in a landscape; saucer border of purple diaper with landscape, cartouches in Rouge de fer

Date: ca. 1775-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357630

Accession Number: 1976.65.1AB

Teacup and saucer

Teacup and saucer, decorated in polychrome enamels with scene of figures in a landscape; saucer border of purple diaper with landscape, cartouches in Rouge de fer

Date: ca. 1775-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357631

Accession Number: 1976.65.2AB

Cup and saucer

Cup and saucer, decorated in polychrome enamels with three figures in a landscape, octagonal star border

Date: ca. 1775

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357632

Accession Number: 1976.66AB

Pair of garniture vases, baluster shaped, underglaze blue decoration forming two panels on sides; blue decoration in continuous band around neck and shoulders; famille rose floral sprays in panels of enamel overglaze; age crack on one

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357633

Accession Number: 1976.67.1-.2

Vase

Garniture vase, underglaze blue decoration forming two panels on sides enclosing landscape scenes with figures

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357634

Accession Number: 1976.68

Vase

Vase with landscape decoration with figures on sides done in enamels overglaze; cartouches in famille rose; repairs

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357635

Accession Number: 1976.69

Tea bowl

Tea bowl, decorated with figures in a landscape, separated by panel with three cartouches; orange and black meadering design on inside rim; small sprig in well

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357636

Accession Number: 1976.70

Tea bowl

Tea bowl with orange decoration inside and outside rim which is foliated; body slightly ribbed, floral springs on outside and in well

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357637

Accession Number: 1976.71

Tea bowl

Tea bowl, decorated with Chinese landscapes with figures painted in enamels in reserves; separated by cartouche with small landscape

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357638

Accession Number: 1976.72

Tea bowl

Tea bowl, decorated with landscapes with figures painted in enamels in reserves; separated by small cartouche with landscape and famille rose cross hatching; design around inside rim

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357639

Accession Number: 1976.73

Tea bowl

Tea bowl, decorated with landscapes with figures in reserves painted in enamels; separated by three cartouches with landscapes; gold and brown spear design around inside rim

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357640

Accession Number: 1976.74

Tea bowl

Tea bowl, decorated with landscapes with figures separated by two cartouches, one with birds, smaller one with landscape design around inside rim; in orange and black, gld trace in well

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357641

Accession Number: 1976.75

Tea bowl

Tea bowl, famille rose enamel decoration, basket of flowers in reserves, separated by flowers in cartouches; decoration inside rim, floral sprig in well

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357642

Accession Number: 1976.76

Tea bowl

Tea bowl, crest with initials "T.J.W." in blue and gold enamel; design on rim in blue and gold; flower spray on side

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357643

Accession Number: 1976.77

Tea bowl

Tea bowl, landscape with figures in reserves, painted in enamels separated by cartouches of landscape and floral sprays. Black and orange border around inside of rim; design in well

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357644

Accession Number: 1976.78

Teacup

Teacup with handle, large floral spray with ribbon on front, sprigs on sides; wide band of decoration around top with flowers in cartouches painted in enamels

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357645

Accession Number: 1976.80

Teacup

Teacup with handle; flower basket on front with small flowers in cartouches and scale design on either side of handle; famille rose enamel decoration

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357646

Accession Number: 1976.81

Teacup

Teacup with handle; Chinese figures in panels, interior scenes; orange and gray flowers in cartouche enclosed at top and bottom with gray border design around handle; orange and gray design and rim on outside

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357647

Accession Number: 1976.82

Teacup

Teacup with handle; Chinese landscape with figures on 3/4 of cup; cartouches with landscape between handle, gold design with four circles at top and bottom of cartouche

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357648

Accession Number: 1976.83

Saucer

Saucer decorated with interior scene with figures done in enamels, flowers in oblong reserves separated by flower design in circles around inside below rim

Date: 1700-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357649

Accession Number: 1976.84

Saucers

Three saucers; painted enamels decorated with a landscape scene with five figures in center; border design under rim with cartouch enclosing small landscapes with swags

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357650

Accession Number: 1976.86.1-.3

Saucer

Saucer; floral spray painted in enamels in well; cartouches with flowers forming a wide border around inside below rim

Date: 1770-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 357651

Accession Number: 1976.87

Rug

Edward Fields rug, approximately 7+' x 10', custom made for family home in Belmont, Massachusetts. Brown border with abstract band, three large arrow shapes in the center.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 356933

Accession Number: 2021.31.2

Drawing, "Newburyport Marshes"

Landscape depicting Newburyport Marshes. Features large haystacks and, in the distance, the sun appears half obscured by the horizon, either rising or setting.

Date: 1890-1934

Maker: Button, Alfred Prentice, 1872-1934 (Artist)

Material: pastels (visual works)

GUSN: 357111

Accession Number: 2021.33.2

Lithograph, "Mending the Nets, Rockport"

Black and white lithograph depicting fthree fishermen mending nets along the harbor in Rockport. In the background, the top of a lighthouse is visible.

Date: 1942

Maker: Ruellan, Andrée , 1905-2006 (Artist)

Material: lithography

GUSN: 357112

Accession Number: 2021.33.3

Trade sign

Cast iron trade sign featuring a human head with lifeliike hair bearing a crown of cascading fruits (apples, graps, strawberries) and acanthus leaves. Relief is set into a wall mounting plate inscribed with the words "A.P. Lombard Co. / Boston / A. Longuemare / SCPT / Wood Carving / Modeling." Cast ...

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 357114

Accession Number: 2021.33.5

Table

"Peter Hunt"-style table with four turned legs and two hemispherical drop leaves, painted yellow and decorated with faux lobster place settings and wine glasses.

Date: 1950-1967

Maker: Hunt, Peter, 1896 -

Material: tables (support furniture)

GUSN: 357121

Accession Number: 2021.33.12

Trunk

Trunk covered with blue printed wallpaper, lined with newspaper.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: trunks (containers)

GUSN: 357122

Accession Number: 2021.33.13

Watercolor, "October Dusk/Connecticut"

Framed piece of paper bearing blue watercolor rectangle. The blue is gradated, suggesting an abstracted landscape.

Date: 1981

Maker: Hall, Lee, 1934-2017 (Artist)

Material: watercolor paper

GUSN: 357123

Accession Number: 2021.33.14

Lithograph, "Lighthouse"

Black and white lithograph depicting abstract landscape featuring a lighthouse on a cliff and a smaller building in the distance.

Date: 1960

Maker: Wolf, Helen, 1912-1970 (Artist)

Material: lithography

GUSN: 357124

Accession Number: 2021.33.15

Tile

Souvenir ceramic tile featuring a green and white-glaze painted image of the FIrst Pilgrim House in Plymouth, Massachusetts. House is surrounded by white picket fence with trees in the background.

Date: 1949

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic tile

GUSN: 357126

Accession Number: 2021.33.17

Andirons

Pair of cast iron andirons with decorative brass sunflower head and plinth.

Date: 1880-1990

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal)

GUSN: 357129

Accession Number: 2021.33.20AB

Print, "From the Sea"

Black and white still-life print of assorted sea shells, ocean flora, and ropes.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: Saltonstall, Elizabeth, 1900-1990

Material: offset presses

GUSN: 357136

Accession Number: 2021.33.27

Drawing

Framed drawing of a street scene of Providence, Rhode Island, featuring eighteenth-century house and pedestrians on a sidewalk.

Date: 1933

Maker: Grose, Helen Mason, 1880-1960 (Artist)

Material: drawings (visual works)

GUSN: 357138

Accession Number: 2021.33.29

Plate

Polychrome transfer-printed ceramic souvenir plate depicting scene from Longfellow's poem about Priscilla and John Alden. Ornate decorative border of flowers, pineapples, apples, and grapes in alternating red, yellow, pink, and brown colors. Center of plate is illustrated scene from poem depicting P...

Date: 1893-1938

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramics (objects)

GUSN: 357146

Accession Number: 2021.33.37

Tile

Souvenir ceramic tile of "The Old Meeting House / Hingham Mass / erected 1681" and the "Belfry North Side" and "Old Beams on the Roof" depicting different architectural views of The Old meeting House. Designs are etched onto ceramic tile and then glazed.

Date: 1900-1925

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic tile

GUSN: 357148

Accession Number: 2021.33.39

Tile

Square ceramic tile with raised impression of a sunflower at the center. Yellow glaze.

Date: 1881

Maker: J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works\n (Manufacturer)

Material: tile

GUSN: 357153

Accession Number: 2021.33.44

Wallpaper

Brown wallpaper with multi-layered frame of brown, red, orange, green, yellow and red--including a diamond and doulbe line patterned in yellow at center. Inside frame is a symetrical arabesque with scrolling solid leaves in brown, red, and orange and accented in thin yellow lines and with small yell...

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 357158

Accession Number: 2021.33.49A

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments depicting military men from different European countries representing different playing cards. Each figural group is rendered in polychrome (red, green, yellow) against a white background. Each figural group hoists a flag bearing a different card in a standard deck of playing car...

Date: 1950-1970

Maker: Katzenbach and Warren, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 357159

Accession Number: 2021.33.50AB

Wallpaper

Fragment of unused wallpaper. Chinoiserie-style pattern featuring stylized plants and botanicals set against various architectural structures and features in a range of East Asian-inspired designs. Roller-printed in browns, red, yellow, purple, green on olive ground. Marked "AWPMA. 1494, 2 Rolls" in...

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association (1880-1887) (Agency)

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 357160

Accession Number: 2021.33.51

Footstool

Circular footstool with gold-painted wooden base and striped fabric top in alternating red and gold. Four round legs and splayed feet carved with geometric pattern. Open rail made from two wooden rods inserted through the legs and separated on two sides by a bell-shaped carving hanging from the base...

Date: 1875

Maker: unknown

Material: wood and wood products, upholstery

GUSN: 357282

Accession Number: 2021.35.1

Margaret Smith Handbag

Margaret Smith handbag. Linen fabric printed with a blue and white pastoral "toile de jouy" style pattern against a yellow background. Two matching shoulder straps and fabric latch enclosure with a magnet. Blue and yellow plaid interior. One zipper pocket.

Date: 1960-1969

Maker: Margaret Smith

Material: linen (material)

GUSN: 357283

Accession Number: 2021.36.1

Chair

Reproduction colonial revival Chippendale arm chair with ribbon carved back

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 357329

Accession Number: 1978.120

Chair

Reproduction colonial revival chippendale side and arm chair with ribbon carved back

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 357331

Accession Number: 1978.121

Chair

Centennial Chippendale side chair

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 357332

Accession Number: 1993.483

Jacket

Short blue jacket with decorative gold trim. Three round gold button enclosures on cuffs of both sleeves. Part of an assembled "Turkish" children's costume in nine pieces.

Date: ca. 1860

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 357352

Accession Number: 2021.40.1

Pants

One pair of flannel pants cinched at the knee. Part of a boy's Scottish Highland costume ensemble in eight pieces.

Date: 1870-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), plaids, flannel

GUSN: 357353

Accession Number: 2021.40.17

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