Blue cobalt toilet bottles. Opaque glass ball-topped stopper with gold dot on top. Flattish lip, long neck with foliate / berry painted design in white and orange. White wreath painted around shoulder with gold line band below.
A night commode chair that has a four-slat back crest with a Windsor arrow design at the lower back of the chair. The high back chair has turned legs, which are braced by ring-turned box stretchers. The seat has a hole cut out at its center with a separate wood lid with a wrought-iron handle fixed by two screws. The underside of the seat no longer has rabbets to support its zinc or lead chamberpot.
Windsor-back rocking chair. The comb-shaped crest has gold painted trim and hand-painted floral, fruit and nut designs. The slab seat also has a hand-painted gilt outline. The two front legs have gilded turnings along with the front stretcher. The two back legs are canted into the rockers and are plain and round with a thin round plain stretcher. Dark wood. Six thin back rails.
Shaving stand is comprised of a mahogany veneer; the mirror attached to the top has a veneered bull-nose frame supported by ring and vase-turned stiles set into the top with tenons at a backward cant. The skirt has two half-drawers; however, the brass knob drawer-pulls are missing. The stand is supported by four ring and ball turned feet
Sheraton-inspired mahogany veneer night table with satinwood inlay accents that outline the apron, drawer and keyhole, as well as the legs. The table top has eight sides and surmounts four saber legs that also support a lower inward-curved shelf.
Two tan / gray linen sheets with red cross-stitching at the top of each. .1 39 inch wide length of ecru linen fabric hand overcast on underside to form a sheet .78 inches wide. Lengthwise sides are selvedges. Handstitched .5 inch hems on crosswise ends. Red cross-stitch, 6.5 inches long, 6.75 inches from a selvedge stitched parallel to selvedge Cotton floss. In center, 2 birds facing a central tulip and perched on a heart; a "B" and "L" and "S"
Provenance
Donated by Ruth Usner; belonged to donor's grandfather.
Acidification lines along probable folds. One large rectangular area of acid burn; may have been stored on wood. Some fraying at corners on one hemmed edge.
A pewter water pitcher made in a form similar to the Boardmans pewtersmiths of Hartford, Connecticut. Boardmans' pewter shop was in business from 1804-1873.
Lovebird mark, albeit is not completely struck, which is two facing birds with the initials LO and VE.
Inscription Type
Hallmark
Object Name
Plate, Food
Material
Pewter
Makers Mark
The plate was not made in London as one mark suggests. The love mark was used over a long period of time, ca. 1750-1840, and by a succession of Philadelphia pewterers.
