Historic New England

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Middleton, Massachusetts. Floral pattern of bouquets alternating with fern sprigs. Paper is roller-printed in tan, gray-green, white and metallic gold on a white satin ground.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272876

Accession Number: 2001.281.85

Wallpaper fragment. Large scale Asian style figure wallpaper featuring framed vignettes of vases. Seated children positioned around the vignettes play musical instruments or noise makers. The background imitates woven matting and the vignette framing, oriental architectural motifs. Other motifs ...

Date: 1875-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 272885

Accession Number: 2001.281.86

Trunk Lining

Two wallpaper fragments mounted on paperboard. The fragments were collected from Barnstable, Massachusetts, and include a note stating they once lined a cowhide trunk from England. The handmade paper is block-printed with a medallion encircled by a larger oval and decorated with oval leaf and acan...

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 272910

Accession Number: 2001.281.87AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Holman House, Attleboro, Massachusetts. Damask pattern paper roller-printed in red on pink ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272914

Accession Number: 2001.281.88

Portrait of a Young Boy

Pastel portrait of a young boy facing left. Identified as a Cushing family member. Boy has his right hand tucked into his pale yellow coat. He is also wearing a high collared ruffled shirt with lace at cuffs, pale blue buttoned waistcoat, and a dark colored cravat. Carved wood frame with gilding.

Date: ca. 1780

Maker: Possibly Blyth, Benjamin (American painter, 1746-after 1787) (Artist)

Material: pastels (crayons), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272917

Accession Number: 1966.1705

Portrait of a Young Girl

Pastel portrait of a young girl facing right. Identified as a Cushing family member. Girl is wearing a light colored round necked dress and holding wilted flowers. Dark wood frame.

Date: ca. 1780

Maker: Possibly Blyth, Benjamin (American painter, 1746-after 1787) (Artist)

Material: pastels (crayons), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272919

Accession Number: 1966.1704

Still Life Painting of Pears

Still life of two yellow pears on gray ground. Oil on panel, plain wood frame.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), panels (wood)

GUSN: 272932

Accession Number: 1996.104

Painting of a Basket of Fruit

Still life with basket of fruit on a round pedestal table. Pineapple in center surrounded by pears, apples, green, red, and purple grapes. Oil on canvas.

Date: ca. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 272933

Accession Number: 1996.107

Still Life Painting of a Bowl of Fruit

Still life with glass bowl of fruit on a rectangular table, draped green curtain in upper right corner. A banana, pear, and red apple surround the bowl of red and green apples, lemons, and an orange. Oil on canvas, no frame.

Date: ca. 1835

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 272934

Accession Number: 1996.108

Tape Loom

Tape loom, inscribed "HT 1734". Rectangular shape with narrow waist. Eleven narrow slots for weaving.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 272935

Accession Number: 1996.110

Davenport Desk

Davenport desk.

Date: 1860-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood), veneer

GUSN: 272936

Accession Number: 2013.7.1

Settee

Porch settee, aluminum frame with green velon webbing.

Date: ca. 1965

Maker: Esty, John Cushing, 1901-1977 (Maker)

Material: aluminum (metal), plastic (organic material)

GUSN: 272937

Accession Number: 2013.7.2

Potholder

Crewelwork potholder.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272938

Accession Number: 1996.111

Potholder

Patchwork potholder.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272939

Accession Number: 1996.112

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from the Holman House, Attleboro, Massachusetts. Damask pattern roller-printed in red on red ground. Paper is printed to appear textured.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272941

Accession Number: 2001.281.89

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Holman House, Attleboro, Massachusetts. Tapestry wallpaper printed with a landscape scene overprinted with fine black lines to simulate the weave of a textile. Roller-printed in multiple greens, browns, blue, violet, yellow, tan and black.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272942

Accession Number: 2001.281.90

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Holman House, Attleboro, Massachusetts. Pattern featurning hillside landscape of stylized trees and houses. Roller-printed in burnt orange, dark green, gray-green, cream, blue, brown and black on dark peach ground.

Date: 1910-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272943

Accession Number: 2001.281.91

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from Holman House, Attleboro, Massachusetts. Floral vine pattern with birds and butterflies. Printed in black, two greens, tan, pink, blue, mauve and gold on tan ground. Overprinted with white and green/copper wavy lines.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272944

Accession Number: 2001.281.92

Wallpaper

Two fragments of Renaissance Revival floral stripe wallpaper from the Clapp House, Dorchester, Massachusetts. Small climbing vines of multi-colored flowers grows up a gray vertical stripe that runs along the left side of roll. The rest of the roll is printed with gray strapwork and scrolls forming...

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 272950

Accession Number: 2001.281.93AB

Ladle

Steel and tin ladle.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272952

Accession Number: 1996.113

Tape Loom

Tape loom, rectangular shape with narrow waist. Carved shell decoration at top, large shell in center flanked by two smaller shells. Inscised decorative lines outline waist and bottom half of loom. Eighteen narrow slots for weaving.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272953

Accession Number: 1996.114

Chintz Fragment

Rectangular fragment, border only. Urn pattern on blue ground, no floral rosettes. Selvedge along one side, opposite border with cut edge.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272035

Accession Number: 1914.244Y

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment, border only. Urn pattern on blue ground, no floral rosettes. Edges cut on both sides.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272036

Accession Number: 1914.244X

Chintz Fragment

Irregular rectangular fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272037

Accession Number: 1914.244L

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with raw edges. Urn border and floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272038

Accession Number: 1914.244W

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with raw edges. Urn border on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

GUSN: 272039

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.1

Chintz Fragment

Rectangular fragment, top selvedge edge. Urn border pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272040

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.2

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern on blue ground with tips of floral rosette pattern just visible along top edge.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272041

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.3

Chintz Fragment

Rectangular fragment with one selvedge edge. Floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272042

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.4

Chintz Fragment

Trapezoidal fragment with one selvedge edge opposite border. Urn border pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272043

Accession Number: 1914.244Z.5

Chintz Fragment

Irregular rectangular fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern on blue ground. Short edges of rectangle are cut on a curve.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272044

Accession Number: 1914.244V

Chintz fragment

L-shaped fragment with one selvedge edge. Floral rosette pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272045

Accession Number: 1914.244U

Chintz Fragment

Irregular rectangular fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern with partial floral rosette pattern along edge. Fragment is pieced together at one end with hand stitches in blue cotton thread. Narrow end has been trimmed to a curve, cutting across border pattern. The end opposite the vertical cut ...

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 272046

Accession Number: 1914.244I

Chintz Fragment

Irregular rectangular fragment with raw edges. Urn border pattern on blue ground.

Date: ca. 1818

Maker: Ovey, Richard (Designer) Probably Bannister Hall (Printer)

Material: cotton (textile), glaze, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 272048

Accession Number: 1914.244D

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments from the Lincoln Streeter House in Brimfield, Massachusetts. Floral pattern printed in brown, cream, white, blackand gray on gray ground.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272049

Accession Number: 1979.4.1AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments from the Lincoln Streeter House in Brimfield, Massachusetts. Scrolling vine and sprig pattern printed in green, brown, white, gray, yellow and liquid mica on a pink ground.

Date: Early twentieth century

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272051

Accession Number: 1979.4.3AB

Wallpaper

Three wallpaper framents found beneath the 1890s wallpaper in the parlor of Castle Tucker, Wiscasset, Maine

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 272053

Accession Number: 1998.6399A-C

Kapa

Large piece of white kapa, or Hawaiian barkcloth. Embossed throughout with small circles and very lightly tinted with charcoal. The texture of the kapa is thin but crisp. Most likely a layer of a kapa moe, or mutli-layered sleeping cover. Tapa (or kapa in Hawaii) is cloth made from the inner bar...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272054

Accession Number: 2006.44.3672

Kapa

Large piece of kapa, or Hawaiian barkcloth. Pink on one side with a decorative pattern of widely spaced bands and triangles made with black/gray spots.The kapa has a crisp, thick texture and is embossed throughout with small triangle shapes. Probably the top layer of a kapa moe, or multi-layered s...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272055

Accession Number: 2006.44.3673

Bamboo Settee

Bamboo, rattan, and wicker settee with four rectangular cushions made of a woven plant material.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material), wicker, rattan

GUSN: 272056

Accession Number: 1936.85

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272057

Accession Number: 1940.750A

Tapa

Large piece of tapa cloth, from Samoa (or possiblyTonga). Tapa - or barkcloth - is called siapo in Samoa. Heavily decorated over its entire surface, the design was made by rubbing barkcloth on a upeti, or patterned form, creating a very fine and intricate pattern. Tapa is fabric made from the inner...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272058

Accession Number: 2006.44.3674

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272060

Accession Number: 1940.750B

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272061

Accession Number: 1940.750C

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272062

Accession Number: 1940.750D

Bamboo armchair

Bamboo armchair.

Maker: unknown

Material: bamboo (material)

GUSN: 272063

Accession Number: 1940.750E

Tapa

Large piece of heavily decorated Samoan tapa cloth, called siapo in Samoa. Intricate decorative pattern covers the surface with frequent overpainting that delineates portions of the pattern. The pattern is made up of triangles, curved hourglass shapes, leaf patterns, chevrons and star-shapes that ar...

Maker: unknown

Material: tapa (bark cloth)

GUSN: 272065

Accession Number: 2006.44.3675

Wallpaper

Unused roll. Pattern composed of rose bouquets, arabesque and garlands. Prints in red, brown, gray, yellow, blue and white on blue ground. Straight repeat. Pin holes visible.

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272066

Accession Number: 1999.109

Wallpaper

Two unused rolls of wallpaper. Pattern composed of roses intersected by meandering stylized leaves. Printed in two pinks, red, gray, three greens, and taupe on biege ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 272067

Accession Number: 1999.156AB

Wallpaper

Unused roll of wallpaper. Pattern composed of roses intersected by meandering stylized leaves. Printed in yellow, pink, four greens, gray, taupe, and brown on a cream ground.

Date: 1933-1980

Maker: Mauny (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 272068

Accession Number: 1999.157

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