Domestic Furnishings

Washboards, armchairs, lamps, and pots and pans may not seem to be museum pieces. But they are invaluable evidence of how most people lived day to day, last week or three centuries ago. The Museum's collections of domestic furnishings comprise more than 40,000 artifacts from American households. Large and small, they include four houses, roughly 800 pieces of furniture, fireplace equipment, spinning wheels, ceramics and glass, family portraits, and much more.

The Arthur and Edna Greenwood Collection contains more than 2,000 objects from New England households from colonial times to mid-1800s. From kitchens of the past, the collections hold some 3,300 artifacts, ranging from refrigerators to spatulas. The lighting devices alone number roughly 3,000 lamps, candleholders, and lanterns.

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Location
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.905V
catalog number
62.905V
accession number
171126
This platter features a transfer print of the Pennsylvania Hospital building in Philadelphia and is part of J&W Ridgway's "Beauties of America" series, a blue transfer decorated dinner service decorated with views of American buildings and a border of roses on the vine, superimpo
Description
This platter features a transfer print of the Pennsylvania Hospital building in Philadelphia and is part of J&W Ridgway's "Beauties of America" series, a blue transfer decorated dinner service decorated with views of American buildings and a border of roses on the vine, superimposed on regularly formed, lighter blue leaves.
Location
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date made
1814-1830
maker
J & W Ridgway
ID Number
CE.62.909S
catalog number
62.909S
accession number
171126
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maker
William Ridgway, Son & Co.
ID Number
CE.62.916O
catalog number
62.916O
accession number
171126
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maker
Enoch Wood and Sons
ID Number
CE.62.875Y
catalog number
62.875Y
accession number
171126
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Location
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.987D
catalog number
62.987D
accession number
171126
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maker
William Adams & Son
ID Number
CE.62.930C
catalog number
62.930C
accession number
171126
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maker
Godwin, Thomas
ID Number
CE.62.946C
catalog number
62.946C
accession number
171126
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Location
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.905U
catalog number
62.905U
accession number
171126
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Location
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maker
William Adams & Sons
ID Number
CE.62.934C
catalog number
62.934C
accession number
171126
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maker
Meigh, Charles
ID Number
CE.62.949O
catalog number
62.949O
accession number
171126
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ID Number
CE.62.972
catalog number
62.972
accession number
171126
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maker
Shaw, Anthony
ID Number
CE.62.957D
catalog number
62.957D
accession number
171126
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Location
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maker
Godwin, Thomas
ID Number
CE.62.950C
catalog number
62.950C
accession number
171126
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ID Number
CE.62.971E
catalog number
62.971E
accession number
171126
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ID Number
CE.62.951C
catalog number
62.951C
accession number
171126
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.899A
catalog number
62.899A
accession number
171126
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.908D
catalog number
62.908D
accession number
171126
Large, oval serving dish with shallow, flat well and raised, shaped edge having an applied cast rim of four bracket-like segments decorated with acanthus and C scrolls of fruit and four sets of three scallops with a central triple ruffled shell flanked by flowers.
Description
Large, oval serving dish with shallow, flat well and raised, shaped edge having an applied cast rim of four bracket-like segments decorated with acanthus and C scrolls of fruit and four sets of three scallops with a central triple ruffled shell flanked by flowers. Opposite sides of edge are engraved with an armorial device, both facing inward, consisting of a quatrefoil cartouche formed by ruffled and foliate C scrolls containing a coat of arms Argent and azure, chevron engrailed counterchanged between two escalloped shells, and on chief, a four-masted ship in full sail. Underside of edge is struck with four hallmarks facing in, a lion passant in clipped-corner shield, uncrowned leopard's head in clipped-corner triangular shield, raised roman letter "g" in clipped-corner shield, and sovereign's head in profile facing right in oval; maker's mark of "BS" in raised roman letters in a rectangle faces out.
Location
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date made
1822 - 1823
previous owner
Pell, Alfred Duane
ID Number
DL.60.0332
catalog number
60.0332
accession number
225282
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Location
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.895C
catalog number
62.895C
accession number
171126
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.905W
catalog number
62.905W
accession number
171126
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.908S
catalog number
62.908S
accession number
171126
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ID Number
CE.75.130AN
catalog number
75.130AN
accession number
317832
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maker
Stubbs, Joseph
ID Number
CE.62.917O
catalog number
62.917O
accession number
171126
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Location
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maker
Thomas Ford & Co.
ID Number
CE.62.963A
catalog number
62.963A
accession number
171126

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