Historic New England

Flute

Flute with ebony body with ivory ferrules, made in five sections. Four nickel silver keys with cupped key covers. Firth and Hall, maker.

Date: About 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: ebony (wood), ivory (tooth component)

GUSN: 17228

Accession Number: 1932.2017

Circular card table. Four square tapered legs inlaid with plain stringing, and at top shaded icicles and flutes in friezes. Top has double row of stringing on edges, semi-circular apron with mahogany veneer having conforming double string inlay. Legs divide skirt into three panels outlined by string...

Date: 1790-1805

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), satinwood (wood)

GUSN: 17229

Accession Number: 1932.2134A

Overmantel Mirror

Overmantel mirror. Wood and gesso, gilded. Horizontal rectangular form, six rope-turned columnar forms terminating in acanthus leaves and turned capitals. Rosettes within corner blocks. Large central mirror panel separated from two smaller panels flanked by simple molding.

Date: 1820

Maker: unknown

Material: gesso, gilding, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 17230

Accession Number: 1933.1026

Fireplace tongs

Plain iron shafts w/ wrought tips in circular pad form. Brass finial and hinge having incised rings and ball over baluster form.

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal)

GUSN: 17231

Accession Number: 1933.1491

Dressing glass

Looking glass supported by two canted uprights with beaded edges and ball finials; enclosed in gilded gesso frame of leaf decoration; base of three horizontal drawers with grooved edges; central drawer is cyma shape, continuing on the inside edges of the two outer drawers; escutcheon; ogee bracket t...

Date: 1730-1760

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 17232

Accession Number: 1933.1507

Dessert plate

Staffordshire blue and white dessert plate; transfer printed; floral blue and white vines on surround of plate; flowers in vase pictured in center of plate encircled by white band; meander bordered edge.

Date: 1802-1828

Maker: Riley, John and Richard (Maker)

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 17233

Accession Number: 1998.702

Chest of drawers

Block front chest; top has molded edge front and sides; top has substantial overhang; below are four graduated drawers; recessed central section, with bowed outer sections; space between drawers has simple beading continued around outer edges of drawers on left and right sides; bottom has molding sa...

Date: 1755-1765

Maker: Possibly Frothingham, Benjamin (American cabinetmaker, 1734-1809) (Cabinetmaker)

Material: mahogany (wood), eastern white pine (wood)

GUSN: 17234

Accession Number: 1933.1508

Side chair

Sheraton style. Square back divided by two tapered and beaded slats into three open sections. The middle section, which rises slightly higher than the surrounding two, and through the crest rail, is circumscribed by an arch, and w/ swagged curtains and Prince of Wales feathers at top. Curving rear l...

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), mahogany (wood), vinyl

GUSN: 17235

Accession Number: 1933.1509A

Side chair

Sheraton style. Square back divided by two tapered and beaded slats into three open sections. The middle section, which rises slightly higher than the surrounding two, and through the crest rail, is circumscribed by an arch, and w/ swagged curtains and Prince of Wales feathers at top. Curving rear l...

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), mahogany (wood), vinyl

GUSN: 17236

Accession Number: 1933.1509B

Side chair

Sheraton style. Square back divided by two tapered and beaded slats into three open sections. The middle section, which rises slightly higher than the surrounding two, and through the crest rail, is circumscribed by an arch, and w/ swagged curtains and Prince of Wales feathers at top. Curving rear l...

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), mahogany (wood), vinyl

GUSN: 17237

Accession Number: 1933.1509C

Teaspoons

Each has a wavy fiddle handle with an upturned tip, and a tapering stem to the spurs above the ovoid, shallow bowl.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: Towle & Jones (Maker)

Material: coin silver, silver (metal)

GUSN: 17035

Accession Number: 1986.786.12

Sauce Ladle

Silver sauce ladle with a downturned oval handle and an elliptical bowl.

Date: 1760-1770

Maker: Holmes, William, 1717-1783 (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17036

Accession Number: 1987.398.2

Salt Spoon

Silver salt spoon. Cast handle with a twist shaft and a round bowl.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17037

Accession Number: 1969.659.2

Dinner Knife

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner knife with a rounded mother of pearl handle. Scroll embellishments.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal), mother of pearl

GUSN: 17038

Accession Number: 1968.22.2

Dinner Knife

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner knife with a rounded mother of pearl handle. Scroll embellishments.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal), mother of pearl

GUSN: 17039

Accession Number: 1968.22.3

Dinner Knife

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner knife with a rounded mother of pearl handle. Scroll embellishments.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal), table knives

GUSN: 17040

Accession Number: 1968.22.4

Dinner Knife

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner knife with a rounded mother of pearl handle. Scroll embellishments.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal), mother of pearl

GUSN: 17041

Accession Number: 1968.22.5

Dinner Knife

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner knife with a rounded mother of pearl handle. Scroll embellishments.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17042

Accession Number: 1968.22.6

Dinner Knife

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner knife with a rounded mother of pearl handle. Scroll embellishments.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal), plate (material)

GUSN: 17043

Accession Number: 1968.22.7

Dinner Knife

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner knife with a rounded mother of pearl handle. Scroll embellishments.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal), mother of pearl

GUSN: 17044

Accession Number: 1968.22.8

Dinner Knife

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner knife with a rounded mother of pearl handle. Scroll embellishments.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal), mother of pearl

GUSN: 17045

Accession Number: 1968.22.9

Dinner Knife

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner knife with a rounded mother of pearl handle. Scroll embellishments.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal), mother of pearl

GUSN: 17046

Accession Number: 1968.22.10

Dinner Knife

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner knife with a rounded mother of pearl handle. Scroll embellishments.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal), mother of pearl

GUSN: 17047

Accession Number: 1968.22.11

Dinner Knife

One of a set of twelve. Silver dinner knife with a rounded mother of pearl handle. Scroll embellishments.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark (Silversmith)

Material: silver (metal), mother of pearl

GUSN: 17048

Accession Number: 1968.22.12

Flatware Case

Felt flatware case with slots for flatware.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark (Silversmith)

Material: felt (textile)

GUSN: 17049

Accession Number: 1968.22.13

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17050

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.2

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17051

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.3

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17052

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.4

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17053

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.5

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17054

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.6

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17055

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.7

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17056

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.8

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17057

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.9

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17058

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.10

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17059

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.11

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17060

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.12

Tablespoon

One of a set of eighteen. Silver tablespoon with a rounded spatulate handle and a pointed oval bowl.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 17061

Accession Number: 1969.643.3.13

Portrait of Sally Foster Otis

Steel engraving after Malbone miniature of Sally Otis (see 1947.783). Three quarter view of Mrs. Otis in blue dress with red shawl. Her arm is resting on a pillar. Wears pearl necklace with cross pendant. White lace around sleeves and neck. (Necklace in collection, 1967.58).

Date: ca. 1850

Maker: unknown

Material: hand coloring, ink, paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 17062

Accession Number: 1917.112

Portrait of Harrison Gray Otis

Photomechanical print of a lithograph (after Chester Harding portrait of 1830). Two openings cut in mat. One for print. Second for HGO autograph.

Date: ca. 1830

Maker: unknown

Material: ink, paper (fiber product), photomechanical processes

GUSN: 17063

Accession Number: 1917.113

Wine Cooler

Cylindrical form with high straight sides, red-orange paint wiht gold stencilled floral pattern below rim. Paired narrow orange stripes near base and rim. Interior of tins are painted in lemon yellow. On either side are handles of lion's heads with circular rings through mouths.

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), tin (metal)

GUSN: 17064

Accession Number: 1918.849B

Meeting House Hill

Framed oil painting of Meeting House Hill, Roxbury, about 1790. Copy by Samuel Curtis (signed and dated, 1799) of an original by John Ritto Penniman of Roxbury. "It was taken from the residence of Deacon Moses Davis on Washington Street, which constitutes the foreground, and exhibits the church and ...

Date: 1799

Maker: Curtis, Samuel, 1785-1876 (Artist)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 17065

Accession Number: 1918.764

Watercolor

This watercolor on paper depicts a bearded man presenting a woman in white robes wearing gold bracelets to man in a red and blue robe. A man and woman at the left side of the scene look on. At the center, behind the main group, a blackman holds a camel's bridle. Palm trees flank the distant mountai...

Date: 1820-1824

Maker: Lyon, Elizabeth Ann, 1806-1834 (Maker)

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

GUSN: 17067

Accession Number: 1916.145

Watercolor

This watercolor on paper landscape depicts a pastoral scene, with cattle drinking from a stream in foreground. On the right is a manor or castle with arches and windows. A man leads a donkey out of the undergrowth towards the stream. Other people are on a road in the distance, walking away from the ...

Date: 1820-1824

Maker: Lyon, Elizabeth Ann, 1806-1834 (Maker)

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

GUSN: 17068

Accession Number: 1916.146

Fireplace tongs

Round clamps; plain steel arms, top portion of brass. Brass hand grip of plain round columnar form surmounted by acorn-shaped finial. Turned and incised rings decorate domed pivot and hand grip.

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), iron (metal), steel (alloy)

GUSN: 17069

Accession Number: 1917.412

Knife

Steel blade w/ bulbous end attached to dyed-green bone handle; shape of blade is flat and spatula shape; handle is divided into two halves; halves are attached by three rivets tosteel; handle has a rounded end.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: bone (material), lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves, horn (animal material), steel (alloy)

GUSN: 17070

Accession Number: 1917.1203A

Knife

Steel blade w/ bulbous end attached to dyed-green bone handle; shape of blade is flat and spatula shape; handle is divided into two halves; halves are attached by three rivets tosteel; handle has a rounded end.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: bone (material), lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves, horn (animal material), steel (alloy)

GUSN: 17071

Accession Number: 1917.1203B

Knife

Steel blade w/ bulbous end attached to dyed-green bone handle; shape of blade is flat and spatula shape; handle is divided into two halves; halves are attached by three rivets tosteel; handle has a rounded end.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: bone (material), lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves, horn (animal material), steel (alloy)

GUSN: 17072

Accession Number: 1917.1203C

Knife

Steel blade w/ bulbous end attached to dyed-green bone handle; shape of blade is flat and spatula shape; handle is divided into two halves; halves are attached by three rivets tosteel; handle has a rounded end.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: bone (material), lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves, horn (animal material), steel (alloy)

GUSN: 17073

Accession Number: 1917.1203E

Knife

Steel blade w/ bulbous end attached to dyed-green bone handle; shape of blade is flat and spatula shape; handle is divided into two halves; halves are attached by three rivets tosteel; handle has a rounded end.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: bone (material), lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves, horn (animal material), steel (alloy)

GUSN: 17074

Accession Number: 1917.1203F

Knife

Steel blade w/ bulbous end attached to dyed-green bone handle; shape of blade is flat and spatula shape; handle is divided into two halves; halves are attached by three rivets tosteel; handle has a rounded end.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: bone (material), lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves, horn (animal material), steel (alloy)

GUSN: 17075

Accession Number: 1917.1203G

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