Historic New England

ENFRAMEMENT, DOOR

Red over white paint. 1) left jamb 2) left jamb 3) lintel

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1879

Accession Number: 1926.971BEF

ENFRAMEMENT

Jambs extend beyond lintel; lintel is notched into vertical frame; semi-circular bolection molding on one side of lintel; some wallpaper.

Date: 1700-1725

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1880

Accession Number: 1986.1714.1-3

DOORHEAD

Overdoor frieze with slightly pedimented head and projecting bevelled molding to define it; brown paint.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1881

Accession Number: 1960.157

Cornice

Coved at the top with reeding on the soffit; under each section of reeding is a small fluted bracket with three guttae below it.

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1882

Accession Number: 1926.967I

Cornice

Cornice with pulvinated frieze; brown paint.

Date: ca. 1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1883

Accession Number: 1969.8075

Red/brown paint over white; fluting, dentils and beading; both ends mitered; originally had pateras in between fluting which were removed before red paint was applied; uppermost scotia molding is apparently missing.

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1884

Accession Number: 1926.972

Cornice

Elaborate molding: bead surmounted by cove, quarter-round, frieze with shaped dentils and projecting moldings above; red over pumpkin over white paint.

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1885

Accession Number: 1926.973

Cornice

Fluting; Greek key below a fillet and then cove molding; white over pumpkin paint.

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1886

Accession Number: 1926.974

Cornice

Exterior; weathered and unpainted.

Date: ca. 1710

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1887

Accession Number: 1986.1927

Cornice

A reproduction?; square ends; all wire nails; mustard/ochre paint over white.

Date: 1900 +

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1888

Accession Number: 1986.1739

Cornice

Sawn section; stain and/or varnish; fillet molding below frieze.

Date: ca. 1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1889

Accession Number: 1969.8083

SHELF

Small shelf with worn edge.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 1890

Accession Number: 1959.153

Cornerblock

Cornerblock for window or door; outline of molded frame clearly visible in the paint on the sides.

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 1891

Accession Number: 1959.234.1

Cornerblock

Cornerblock for top right-hand corner of a door or window frame. A square central ornament beveled towards the four sides. The outline in paint of the abutting molded frame is clearly visible on two sides.

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: beveling, painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 1892

Accession Number: 1959.234.2

Ornament

Bunch of grapes with grape leaf, stem and tendril; carved somewhat crudely.

Date: 19th Century

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), softwood

GUSN: 1893

Accession Number: 1963.28

CLAPBOARD

Feathered on right edge; unfinished; entire face is weathered.

Date: 1725-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 1895

Accession Number: 1930.819

Clapboard

Cut nails; hardwood; angled at each end.

Date: 19th Century

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 1896

Accession Number: 1959.136

CLAPBOARD

Bevelled top; sawn, butt edges; painted white; nails holes along bottom edge and through exposed portion of old weathered face.

Date: ca. 1750

Maker: unknown

Material: beveling, painting (coating), sawing, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 1897

Accession Number: 1959.141

CLAPBOARD

Clapboard piece, probably oak; very heavy paint, white then green.

Date: ca. 1750

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood), painting (coating)

GUSN: 1898

Accession Number: 1959.155

WEATHERBOARDING

Two edges beveled. Exposed surface quite weathered. No paint.

Date: 1700-1725

Maker: unknown

Material: beveling, hardwood

GUSN: 1899

Accession Number: 1959.156

Clapboard

Feathered top and edges; painted grey.

Date: 1794

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 1900

Accession Number: 1959.281A

Clapboard

Six fragments of clapboards with scived ends. Well-worn white paint.

Date: 1762

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 1901

Accession Number: 1959.285A-E

CLAPBOARD

Red paint on the weathered portion.

Date: 1675-1700

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 1902

Accession Number: 1969.248

LATH

Lath with scived end.

Maker: unknown

Material: Port Orford cedar (wood)

GUSN: 1903

Accession Number: 1959.165

LATH

Very thick lath, front and back sawn, edges riven; perhaps a sheathing board reused.

Date: ca. 1725

Maker: unknown

Material: splitting, sawing, softwood

GUSN: 1904

Accession Number: 1959.471

LATH

Riven lath with two cut nails.

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: hardwood, splitting

GUSN: 1905

Accession Number: 1960.42AB

PLANK WALL

Short length shown roughened face for possibly direct application of plaster.

Date: ca. 1660

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 1906

Accession Number: 1963.6B

LATH

No description

Date: 1750-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: splitting, chestnut (wood)

GUSN: 1907

Accession Number: 1969.249

Captain Oliver Lane House

View of a house and wharf built by Captain Oliver Lane in Annisquam, MA, in 1833. Center of the scenic picture is a large white house, with an ell and a white fence surrounding the house. In the foreground is a river with three boats and a wharf, other houses and figures of people looking out window...

Date: October 1859

Maker: Wiggin, Alfred J. (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2777

Accession Number: 1991.1227

Foot Warmer

No description

Date: 1700-1799

Maker: unknown

Material: incising, iron (metal), nailing, oak (wood), piercing, pine (wood), wrought

GUSN: 2778

Accession Number: 1991.1228

Portrait of Jacob Goold

Rectangular format, waist length portrait of Jacob Goold. Depicts an old man with night cap style hat and house coat. Holding a book, index finger on left hand points down. Facing left side of painting. Oil on panel.

Date: 1803

Maker: Greenleaf, Benjamin, 1769-1821 (Maker)

Material: boards (flat objects), oil painting (technique), oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 2779

Accession Number: 1991.1229

Candle Lantern

Tin and glass candle lantern; two large glass panels on the sides; other sides are tin with shaped windows, pierced round top and loop strap handle; painted green with tin leaf-like motifs attached to the shoulders.

Date: 1790-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), molding (forming), piercing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 2780

Accession Number: 1991.1230

Doorstop

Round and thick, emerald green pressed glass doorstop with starburst flower pattern on the top.

Date: 1830-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: coloring, glass (material), pressing

GUSN: 2781

Accession Number: 1991.1231

Hand Mirror

Long, oval wooden hand mirror with delicate stringing around the glass; pine handle tapers and is pierced and has two round inlaid bits of ebony; seems to be a woman's.

Date: 1790-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: ebony (wood), mirrors, pine (wood), glass (material)

GUSN: 2782

Accession Number: 1991.1232

Blanket Chest

Rectangular bright aqua blue-painted pine blanket chest; overhanging hinged lid above projecting front and rear panels; inset sides with bracket feet; nailed and glued construction.

Date: 1850-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: nailing, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2783

Accession Number: 1991.1233

Footstool

Rectangular overhanging top; shaped and carved apron with carved bootjack ends; painted dark green and decorated in yellow with a pinstripe reserve enclosing leafy vine and the inscription "Frances Jane Fernald" upon the top; the front side apron is carved with pinwheels and hearts, heightened with ...

Date: 1805-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2784

Accession Number: 1991.1234

Comb-back Windsor Side Chair

Comb-shaped crestrail over seven rod-turned spindles and baluster-turned stiles on shaped seat; raised on four splayed and bulbous turned legs; side stretchers and medial stretcher; painted black with yellow-gold pinstriping.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2785

Accession Number: 1991.1235

Washstand

Pine washstand painted bright yellow with dark and lighter brown outlining; painted motif of a potted, flowering plant on a tripod on the splashboard; squared galleried top; shaped splashboard with corner shelves and sloped sides around a double-top; cut-out bowl holder with solid removable top; fou...

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, gluing, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2786

Accession Number: 1991.1236

Chest of Drawers, or Case of Boxes

Red-painted pine "box of drawers" or "case of boxes" as they were known; small chest form with 6 drawers- 3 rows and 2 columns; pine knobs on a molded plinth base; large dovetails at top.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2787

Accession Number: 1991.1237

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer printed pearlware chamberpot; squat, globular body on a small, rounded foot with a side strap handle; fitted lid with flat top, concave sides and ring handles; allover underglaze blue transfer print decoration with pastoral English landscape which shows figures in a landscape;...

Date: 1815-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2788

Accession Number: 1991.1238AB

Chamber Pot

Pearlware child's chamber pot ; squat, irregular bulbous body on low, flared foot; flat overhanging rim and scroll handles; decorated with hand-painted underglaze blue floral decoration and blue bands to rim and foot.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (image-making), hand-painted, pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), underglazing

GUSN: 2789

Accession Number: 1991.1239

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer-print ironstone child's chamberpot; squat, globular body on low ring foot with rounded outflared rim and strap handle; light-blue transferprint scenes of exotic buildings in a landscape and leafy vine trim, marked IRONSTONE/FRIBURG/G. PHILLIPS, LONGPORT.

Date: 1834-1848

Maker: Phillips, George (Maker)

Material: ironstone (pottery), throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2790

Accession Number: 1991.1240

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer-print pearlware chamber pot, of squat globular form with a low straight foot, a flat overhanging rim and a strap handle. It has a underglaze blue transfer-print decoration of figures in a country landscape with cows and houses in the forground and background, as well as a conf...

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2791

Accession Number: 1991.1241

Chamber Pot

A Pearlware chamber pot of squat globular form with shoulder to body handle and a flat overhanging rim. It is decorated with an underglaze blue freehand decoration of a bold, stylized scrolling vine between blue ribbed bands around the sides. There is a leaf decoration to the rim and handle and it b...

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: appliqué (technique), molding (forming), painting (coating), pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), underglazing

GUSN: 2792

Accession Number: 1991.1242

Doll's Canopy Bed

A tall-post canopy bed with a flat rectangular canopy resting on four pencil-turned posts and pencil-turned tapering lower posts, as well as a shaped rectangular headboard. There are four rails and it is all red-stained.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), staining

GUSN: 2793

Accession Number: 1991.1243

Doll Mattress

Of rectangular form, white linen with hand-sewn seams and stuffed with old blankets.

Date: 1840-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), sewing (process)

GUSN: 2794

Accession Number: 1991.1244

Doll Bed Canopy and Headcloth

A canopy for a flat-top doll's bed; an off-white cotton printed with delicate floral sprigs in brown, red, green and pink. All sides are ornamented with a cotton tape border with yellow and red wool swags. The headcloth is of the same fabric and is tacked into place.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 2795

Accession Number: 1991.1245AB

Doll Blanket

Of square form, patterned with a field of a white lined grid over a medium blue grid on a butternut ground, and enclosed by a plaid border in like colors.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), weaving

GUSN: 2796

Accession Number: 1991.1246

Mourning Picture for Josiah Bartlett and Mary Bartlett

Of rectangular format, of a woman bent over a neoclassical sarcophogus resting on claw feet on a rusticated base, in a wooded landscape with a foreground stream. There are trees behind and on the side and over the tomb, as well as a vine of roses. She is draped in classical style- white dress and a...

Date: 1795-1812

Maker: Bartlett, Laura, 1799-1872 (Artist) Miss Rowson's Academy for Young Ladies

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2797

Accession Number: 1991.1248

Folio Lithograph

Colored lithograph of oblong rectangular format. It shows a small sailing schooner flying the American flag, with six men onboard, rounding the Eastern Point Light. Beside the lighthouse there stand two men waving hats and a woman waving a handkerchief. It has a plain black frame with thinly painted...

Date: 1873

Maker: Haskell & Allen (Maker)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 2798

Accession Number: 1991.1249

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