Historic New England

Pilaster Capital

Stone pilaster capital from the Governor Hutchinson House.

Date: 1689-1692

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), painting (coating), stone (rock)

GUSN: 369572

Accession Number: 2025.12.5

Modillion Block

Modillion block, Governor Hutchinson House, unknown maker, Boston, 1760s

Date: 1737

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), molding (forming), painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 369573

Accession Number: 2025.12.6

Roller Skates

A pair of white leather roller skates, with wood and leather soles and leather traveling case

Date: 1952-1956

Maker: unknown

Material: leather, wood (plant material), metal, cotton (textile)

GUSN: 369837

Accession Number: 2025.13.1A-C

FOUND IN COLLECTION:Green bonnet with pink trim and green ribbons. 3/18/2025 - SLC. Badly faded throughout, ribbons are fraying, strings are coming out on side. Found inside dark blue box of doll hats.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 370201

Accession Number: FIC2025.1.77

Tea Table

A Queen Anne mahogany tea table with a rectangular top with molded edge and carved corners, a scalloped skirt, cabriole legs and pad feet, and candle slides at both ends. Probably Boston.

Date: 1745-1770

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), carving (processes)

GUSN: 370309

Accession Number: 2016.188.1

Hedgehog Doorstop

Molded concrete hedgehog-shaped doorstop. Pointed nose with rounded tip, round inset eyes, a smiling inset mouth, large ears, and two front paws with four toes each.

Maker: unknown

Material: concrete

GUSN: 370310

Accession Number: 2016.188.2

Delft Tile

Blue and white ceramic tile depicting a bird flying toward a plant on the ground.

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic tile, hand-painted

GUSN: 370311

Accession Number: 2016.188.3

Pair of Candlesticks

A pair of English antique brass Queen Anne candlesticks with petal detailed bases.

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 370312

Accession Number: 2016.188.5.1-.2

Pair of Candlesticks

Pair of brass candlesticks with turned columns and square bases. Flat square base has depressed circle around the column that reaches out to the four sides of the square.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 370313

Accession Number: 2016.188.6.1-.2

Pair of Candlesticks

A pair of Queen Anne brass candlesticks with a scalloped base, a simple candle cup, and repaired push-ups.

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 370314

Accession Number: 2016.188.7.1-.2

Pair of Candlesticks with Glass Peg Lamps

A pair of brass Queen Anne candlesticks with a scalloped bobeche and petal base along with clear blown glass peg lamps with burners.

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), glass (material)

GUSN: 370315

Accession Number: 2016.188.8.1-.2

Pair of Glass Oil Lamps

A pair of clear glass hand blown oil lamps with round bases, burners and wicks.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), brass (alloy), cotton (fiber)

GUSN: 370316

Accession Number: 2016.188.9.1-.2

Delft Tile

A Delft tile with mulberry angel decoration.

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic tile

GUSN: 370317

Accession Number: 2016.188.10

Delft Tile

A Delft tile with a mulberry genre scene.

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic tile

GUSN: 370318

Accession Number: 2016.188.11

Delft Tile

A Delft tile with mulberry bird decoration.

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic tile

GUSN: 370319

Accession Number: 2016.188.12

Silhouette of F. L. Bixby

Black paper silhouette profile of a head facing left, offset slightly from a similarly cut white paper silhouette, against a white paper background. "F. L. Bixby" is written in blue ink in tiny cursive writing below the neck of the silhouette. "surgeon" is printed in the same blue ink just below the...

Date: 1967

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood and wood products

GUSN: 370320

Accession Number: 2016.188.13

Silhouette of F. L. Bixby

Black paper silhouette profile of a female head and shoulders, facing right against a white paper background. In a round wooden, painted black frame. There is a white rectangular sticker at the center of the backing cardboard with "F L Bixby 1917 San Francisco Fair" hand printed on it in blue ink.

Date: 1917

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood and wood products

GUSN: 370321

Accession Number: 2016.188.14

Bucket

A continental pewter bucket with a rolled rim, tapered body, round base, and a wide swing handle.

Maker: unknown

Material: pewter (tin alloy), casting (process)

GUSN: 370322

Accession Number: 2016.188.15

Serving Dish

A rectangular silver serving dish with rounded corners and a reeded upper edge.

Maker: unknown

Material: silvering

GUSN: 370323

Accession Number: 2016.188.16

Bird Cage with Singing Bird Automatons

A music box in the form of a domed, brass birdcage with a round black base decorated with roses and black banding, and two animatronic singing birds, one yellow and one red, at the interior.

Date: 1850-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), enamel (fused coating), feather (material), featherwork

GUSN: 370324

Accession Number: 2016.188.17

Dish

A Chinese export oval tray with a scalloped edge and a pink lotus border.

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 370325

Accession Number: 2016.188.18

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

Trunk

Large wooden trunk. Interior lined with London newspaper.

Date: 17th century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 360538

Accession Number: 1945.447

Table

Rectangular table with turned legs and no drawer

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 360681

Accession Number: 2006.44.3740

Dropleaf Table

Drop Leaf Table with spiral-turned legs

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 360682

Accession Number: 2006.44.3741

Mattress

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 360684

Accession Number: 2006.44.3742.2AB

Box Spring

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 360685

Accession Number: 2006.44.3742.3

Fabric Fragment

Eight pieces of fabric, printed cotton; white with dark blue flowers

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 360905

Accession Number: 1984.1271.1-.8

Fabric Fragment

Printed cotton fragments; white with abstract black and brown design

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 360906

Accession Number: 1984.1272

Fabric Fragment

White fabric, creased, discolored along edges and folds.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 360907

Accession Number: 1984.1274

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments original to Corey House (c. 1777) in Westport, Massachusetts - shapes of grey, white, and black.

Date: ca. 1777

Maker: unknown

Material: block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 361365

Accession Number: 2023.15.1A-F

Reproduction Wallpaper

Reproduction of wallpaper (see 2023.15.1A-F) with grey background, white and black laurel leaves and light pink diamonds with black dots with radiating white lines.

Date: 2023

Maker: Adelphi Paper Hangings, LLC

Material: block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 361366

Accession Number: 2023.15.2

Platter\n

Large platter with tan and gilt border and floral motif in center, original to the Eustis Estate.

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 361367

Accession Number: 2023.16.1

Poncho

Black leather poncho embriodered in repeating palm and scroll pattern in light pink, orange, and dark pink. Neck, edges, and cener bound with black leather and botton edges adorned with bundles of leather fringe.

Date: 1970-1979

Maker: Roberts, Samuel

Material: leather, embroidering, fringe

GUSN: 361368

Accession Number: 2023.17.1

Wallpaper Fragment

A faux birch bark wallpaper fragment.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 368304

Accession Number: 2023.21.1

Bells

Wooden board having three house-jingle bells attached

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 361414

Accession Number: 1942.437

Side chair

Side chair Prince of Wales, oval shaped back splat, containing four blue plumes, gathered at bottom with carved and painted blue ribbon. Crest decorated with delicately painted roses and greenery. Similar decoration also present on front and outer surfaces of front legs. Red and gold decoration. Squ...

Date: ca. 1896

Maker: A. H. Davenport Co. (American furniture manufactory, active late 19th-early 20th centuries) (Maker)

GUSN: 361554

Accession Number: 2023.36.1

Doily

Hand-made crocheted flax doily, made by Sarah Moore Towne.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 361559

Accession Number: 2023.37.2

Mirror\n

Looking glass in an oval shape with carved wooden frame. Frame is carved with decorative fruits, including blueberries and strawberries. Frame is painted black with gilt trim along interior edge.

Date: 1900-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 361569

Accession Number: 2023.40.1

Fire bucket

Leather fire bucket with polychrome painted exterior. Exterior front has a green background, curling ribbon motif in yellow, white, and black reading "HENRY K, HANCOCK / UNITED FIRE SOCEITY." Below the ribbon in black is "1824." Above ribbon is "FD / 2" and at the center front of the bucket is a yel...

Date: c. 1824

Maker: unknown

Material: leather

GUSN: 361570

Accession Number: 2023.41.1

Tankard

18th century lidded silver tankard with stepped foot and stepped lid with a bell-shaped finial. Addition of a mid-19th century hallow s-curve handle with a strapwork style hinge, engraving of intitals at top, and a grotesque masked medallion at the bottom. 19th century attached spout with heart-shap...

Date: 1710-1730

Maker: Edwards, John, 1671-1746

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 361571

Accession Number: 2023.41.2

Decorative plate

Reticulated ceramic plate with basket weave rim having four cartouches, speckled blue glaze with gold accents, and central motif of dianthus in blues outlined with gold, painted by Hannah Kelham Hancock Hunting (1835-1905).

Date: late 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: soft paste porcelain

GUSN: 361572

Accession Number: 2023.41.3

"Paint by Numbers" Painting

"Paint by Numbers" painitng of a Parisian city scene with the Arc de Triomphe in the backgroun.

Date: c. 1950

Maker: unknown

Material: acrylic paint

GUSN: 361573

Accession Number: 2023.41.4

Playskool Pullman "Sleep-Dolly-Sleep" toy

Metal Playskool Pullman Sleep-Dolly-Sleep toy with leather and rivet clasp and remains of a leather handle. Includes two porcelain dolls in orange pants and white shirts with embroidered orange bows, two porcelain dogs painted yellow with red dots and with white fabric "leashes," felt and fabric sea...

Date: 1938

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 361574

Accession Number: 2023.41.5