Historic New England

Dessert Plate

Three round plates with lobed edge, wide magenta band with gilt decoration, an orange painted in the center French export porcelain dinner service with pattern of fruit, birds, and diaper and scroll designs around HCB monogram. Two serving plates, five tureens, three saucers, five platters, six...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64428

Accession Number: 1981.7.14

Dessert Plate

Three round plates with lobed edge, wide magenta band with gilt decoration, an orange painted in the center French export porcelain dinner service with pattern of fruit, birds, and diaper and scroll designs around HCB monogram. Two serving plates, five tureens, three saucers, five platters, six...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64429

Accession Number: 1981.7.16

Dessert Plate

Three round plates with lobed edge, wide magenta band with gilt decoration, an orange painted in the center French export porcelain dinner service with pattern of fruit, birds, and diaper and scroll designs around HCB monogram. Two serving plates, five tureens, three saucers, five platters, six...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64430

Accession Number: 1981.7.15

Gravy Tureen

Oval two handled tureen with lid and attached saucer. White porcelain body; lid, tureen, and saucer all with broad magenta band with gilt scroll decoration. Saucer cut with four lobes. Lid has semi-circular cutout for ladle and oval gilt decorated mushroom shaped finial, lid monogramed HCB Fren...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64431

Accession Number: 1981.7.17

Tureen

Round two handled tureen with lid and attached saucer. White porcelain body; lid, tureen, and saucer all with broad magenta band with gilt scroll decoration. Saucer cut with four lobes. Lid has semi-circular cutout for ladle and oval gilt decorated mushroom shaped finial, lid monogramed HCB Fre...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64432

Accession Number: 1981.7.18

Dish

Oblong shaped nappy dish white porcelain body. Broad magenta band with gilt scroll decoration. Center monogrammed "HCB" French export porcelain dinner service with pattern of fruit, birds, and diaper and scroll designs around HCB monogram. Two serving plates, five tureens, three saucers, five p...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64433

Accession Number: 1981.7.19

Platter

Elliptically shaped with lobed edge. White porcelain body with wide magenta band with gilt scroll decoration. Center monogrammed "HCB". Bottom incised. French export porcelain dinner service with pattern of fruit, birds, and diaper and scroll designs around HCB monogram. Two serving plates, fi...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64434

Accession Number: 1981.7.20

Saucer

Saucer with well-defined cup well, magenta band and cream borders, decorated with gilt scrolls. French export porcelain dinner service with pattern of fruit, birds, and diaper and scroll designs around HCB monogram. Two serving plates, five tureens, three saucers, five platters, sixteen soup pl...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64435

Accession Number: 1981.82.1

Saucer

Saucer with well-defined cup well, magenta band and cream borders, decorated with gilt scrolls. French export porcelain dinner service with pattern of fruit, birds, and diaper and scroll designs around HCB monogram. Two serving plates, five tureens, three saucers, five platters, sixteen soup pl...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64436

Accession Number: 1981.82.2

Saucer

Saucer with well-defined cup well, magenta band and cream borders, decorated with gilt scrolls. French export porcelain dinner service with pattern of fruit, birds, and diaper and scroll designs around HCB monogram. Two serving plates, five tureens, three saucers, five platters, sixteen soup pl...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64437

Accession Number: 1981.82.3

Bread Plate

Bread plate with scalloped edges, magenta band and cream borders, decorated with gilt scrolls. French export porcelain dinner service with pattern of fruit, birds, and diaper and scroll designs around HCB monogram. Two serving plates, five tureens, three saucers, five platters, sixteen soup pla...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64438

Accession Number: 1981.82.4

Soup Plate

Soup plate with scalloped edges, magenta band and cream borders, decorated with gilt scrolls. French export porcelain dinner service with pattern of fruit, birds, and diaper and scroll designs around HCB monogram. Two serving plates, five tureens, three saucers, five platters, sixteen soup plat...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64439

Accession Number: 1981.82.5

Pitcher

Bulbous pitcher with central reserves and magenta surround, gilt scrolls and central side "HCB" monogram French export porcelain dinner service with pattern of fruit, birds, and diaper and scroll designs around HCB monogram. Two serving plates, five tureens, three saucers, five platters, sixte...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: gilding, porcelain

GUSN: 64440

Accession Number: 1981.82.6

Hall Chair

Pair of hall chairs. Gothic style, oak back with two arches, acorn finials, solid plank seat on hinges. Octagonal turned front legs with ring-turned feet.

Date: 1846-1847

Maker: Probably Brooks, Thomas, 1811-1887 (Maker)

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 64441

Accession Number: 1970.421.1

Side Chair

Pair of hall chairs. Gothic style, oak back with two arches, acorn finials, solid plank seat on hinges.

Date: 1846-1847

Maker: Probably Brooks, Thomas, 1811-1887 (Maker)

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 64442

Accession Number: 1970.421.2

Hall Table

Gothic revival. Rectangular overhanging top, rectangular skirt, with carved recessed gothic decoration. Four tapered legs terminating on articulated feet, supported by modified G scroll brackets. Screwed glue blocks beneath top.

Date: 1846-1847

Maker: Probably Brooks, Thomas, 1811-1887 (Maker)

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 64443

Accession Number: 1970.422

Hall Stand

Gothic revival hall stand and pierced and carved Gothic arch with pivoting concave star-shaped looking glass, and eight wooden pegs. Molded stiles with carved finials, serpentine arms; octagonal front posts with pear-shaped finials, molded feet. Rectangular bottom encloses cast-iron shell-shaped bas...

Date: 1846-1847

Maker: Probably Brooks, Thomas, 1811-1887 (Maker)

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 64444

Accession Number: 1970.423

Nesting Table

Side table on trestle base with elaborate baluster and ring turnings. Oval top with shaped, molded rim. Nest of three identical forms.

Date: 1925-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: veneering, walnut (wood)

GUSN: 64445

Accession Number: 1970.441.1

Nesting Table

Side table on trestle base with elaborate baluster and ring turnings. Oval top with shaped, molded rim. Nest of three identical forms.

Date: 1925-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: veneering, walnut (wood)

GUSN: 64446

Accession Number: 1970.441.2

Nesting Table

Side table on trestle base with elaborate baluster and ring turnings. Oval top with shaped, molded rim. Nest of three identical forms.

Date: 1925-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: veneering, walnut (wood)

GUSN: 64447

Accession Number: 1970.441.3

Watercolor of Roseland Cottage

Framed watercolor on paper view of the Bowen family's Roseland Cottage and grounds in Woodstock, Connecticut from the northeast; the road and fence are in the foreground with trees and grounds visible around the house.

Date: ca. 1847

Maker: Attributed to Wells, Joseph Collins, 1813-1860 (Artist)

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

GUSN: 64448

Accession Number: 1970.442A

Picture Frame

Frame with carved oak branches in corners; three inch decorative carved border of alternating leaves and balls. Painted black over red.

Date: ca. 1847

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), walnut (wood)

GUSN: 64449

Accession Number: 1970.442B

Prayer Chair

Wide crest rail with tiger and figured maple veneer. Three flat rectangular slats, flanked by two rounded sides, caned seat, klismos legs with one curved front stretcher.

Date: 1875-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: caning, maple (wood), veneering

GUSN: 64450

Accession Number: 1970.494

Frieze Wallpaper

Aesthetic style of interlacing rosettes and dresser-esque volutes colored in blue and brick red; gilt.

Date: 1885-1890

Maker: Frederick Beck & Co. (Maker)

Material: Lincrusta Walton

GUSN: 64451

Accession Number: 1970.507

Wallpaper

Rococo floral four in fretted border separates dado from fill pattern which is a traditional large scale damask design in two shades of green and orange. Originally with gilt highlights.

Date: 1885-1890

Maker: Frederick Beck & Co. (Maker)

Material: Lincrusta Walton

GUSN: 64452

Accession Number: 1970.508

Dado Wallpaper

Stylized sunflower pattern with blossoms set in squares alternating horizontally and vertically with seeded branches in rectangles. Colored in various green tones and gold. Originally gilt.

Date: 1885-1890

Maker: Frederick Beck & Co. (Manufacturer) Groeber, Paul (Designer)

Material: Lincrusta Walton

GUSN: 64453

Accession Number: 1970.509

Light Fixture

Round styles shaped with side brackets enclose cylindrical etched glass shade with view of Brooklyn Bridge on each side surrounded by geometric and foliate forms. Originally gas, now electric. General East Lake decoration.

Date: 1883-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), etching (corroding), glass (material)

GUSN: 64454

Accession Number: 1970.563

Family Tree

Rectangular Pedigree of Griffith Bowen with polychrome heraldic decoration in watercolor, signed by an employee of the College of Arms. Framed under glass.

Date: 1891

Maker: College of Arms (Maker)

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

GUSN: 64455

Accession Number: 1970.564

Commemorative Certificate

Declaration from President Theodore Roosevelt appointing George C. Holt as U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Date: 1903

Maker: Roosevelt, Theodore (Signer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 64456

Accession Number: 1970.565

Commemorative Certificate

Certificate acknowledging Henry Bowen's appointment as Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of New York, signed by President Abraham Lincoln. Under glass; elaborate, rectangular gilt and gesso frame. .

Date: 1863

Maker: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Signer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 64457

Accession Number: 1970.566

Commemorative Certificate

Rectangular molded wooden frame; glass; certificate acknowledging William Bowen's appointment as Postmaster of Woodstock, Connecticut. Signed by Gideon Granger, Postmaster General.

Date: 1810

Maker: Granger, Gideon (Signer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 64458

Accession Number: 1970.567

Wall Mirror

Rectangular mirror with elaborate gesso decoration and two alternating floral bands.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 64459

Accession Number: 1970.568

Stand

Elizabethan Revival stand with animal paw feet. Elaborately carved pillar. Eighteenth century Chinese export bowl with famille rose decoration, circular pieced and carved wooden rim.

Date: 1880

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 64460

Accession Number: 1970.569

Painting

Elaborately carved walnut rectangular frame with preened and carved crest, side brackets, and pendant; glass; polychrome coat of arms for the Bowen family with motto Festina Lente which translates to the adage: make haste slowly. Label on back.

Date: 1882

Maker: Hays, Henry (Maker)

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

GUSN: 64461

Accession Number: 1970.570

Map

Topographical and historical map of Woodstock and surrounding areas. Framed with glass and molded and floral frame.

Date: 1883

Maker: Lester, John S. (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 64462

Accession Number: 1970.571

Print "Summer in the Highlands"

Color lithograph. Marked Entered according to Act of Congress 1867 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York Titled Summer in the Highlands. Depicts gothic revival house overlooking a lake. Molded gilt frame & glass...

Date: 1867

Maker: Currier & Ives (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product), lithography

GUSN: 64463

Accession Number: 1970.572

Letter Box

Cartouche shaped font with carved foliate decoration and center delineated for Notes

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), walnut (wood)

GUSN: 64464

Accession Number: 1970.573

Settee

Back rail with carved oak leaf and acorn motif with ball turned ends surmounting gallery of small turned spindles. Arms with corresponding spindle configuration, skirt with dentil decoration; beehive turned and tapered front legs and square shaped rear legs. Separate buttoned upholstered cushion.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), walnut (wood)

GUSN: 64465

Accession Number: 1970.574

Vase

Gray body; matte finish; applied molded dark foliate dec; circular

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 64466

Accession Number: 1970.1321

Statue

Woman; toga; hand to forehead; holding kylix; contrapasto stance

Date: 1880

Maker: unknown

Material: marble (rock)

GUSN: 64467

Accession Number: 1970.960

Lantern-slide Transparency

Glass slide with garden scene

Date: 1850-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), painting (coating)

GUSN: 64468

Accession Number: 1968.12.1

Lantern-slide Transparency

Glass slide with orchard scene

Date: 1850-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), painting (coating)

GUSN: 64469

Accession Number: 1968.12.2

Lantern-slide Transparency

Glass slide with seascape

Date: 1850-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), painting (coating)

GUSN: 64470

Accession Number: 1968.12.3

Lantern-slide Transparency

Glass slide with caravan

Date: 1850-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), painting (coating), palm leaf

GUSN: 64471

Accession Number: 1968.12.4

Table

Gothic revival. Stylized feet below cross shaped base with pierced bracket connecting to octagonal tapered pedestal. Paneled octagonal skirt with corresponding canted marble top, marbleized to resemble yellow Sienna.

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, marble (rock), oak (wood)

GUSN: 64472

Accession Number: 1970.424

Slipper Chair

Gothic Revival upholstered chair with pointed arch back enclosing tracery carving surmounted by acanthus crocket. Upholstered rectangular back flanked by rectangular stiles with recessed arch lozenges terminating in recessed quatrefoil block at back rail. Carved drops between back rail and upholster...

Date: 1847-1848

Maker: Probably Brooks, Thomas, 1811-1887 (Maker)

Material: walnut (wood), wool (textile)

GUSN: 64473

Accession Number: 1970.426

Armchair

Gothic Revival open arm tracery back with center top quatrefoil design and crocket. Back is flanked by two rectangular stiles with acorn finials at top and quatrefoil blocks at lower back rail. Curved arms roll back at front rail and form a three part floral motif. Quatrefoil blocks at Front rail ec...

Date: c. 1846

Maker: Probably Brooks, Thomas, 1811-1887 (Maker)

Material: walnut (wood), wool (textile)

GUSN: 64474

Accession Number: 1970.427

Settee

Gothic Revival settee with two part tracery back; each raised upholstered rectangular back has open carved pointed arch surmounted by carved blossoming acanthus bud and flanked by stacked rectangular plinths which terminate in carved bud. Plinth sits on modified Corinthian capital. Center back is lo...

Date: 1847

Maker: Probably Brooks, Thomas, 1811-1887 (Maker)

Material: walnut (wood), wool (textile)

GUSN: 64475

Accession Number: 1970.428

Table

Renaissance Revival style; Vermont white marble top is painted to simulate sienna marble. Carved apron and turned shaft deflects to four cabriole legs. "MEEKS" in block letters is inscribed on bottom.

Date: 1850

Maker: Meeks, Joseph (Maker)

Material: graining, marble (rock), walnut (wood)

GUSN: 64476

Accession Number: 1970.430

Table

Renaissance Revival, four pierced scrolled bracket legs and central turned shaft ending in drop finial. Extenuated quatrefoil skirt. Vermont white marble top marbleized to simulate yellow Sienna marble.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, marble (rock), walnut (wood)

GUSN: 64477

Accession Number: 1970.432

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