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Sheraton card table, Massachusetts, c.1810, mahogany with veneer,
Richard Goss Stanwood; above, Fitz Henry Lane Brig Cadet in
Gloucester Harbor, late 1840s |
The decorative arts collection helps to round out the picture of
community life in earlier days.
The collection includes important 18th and 19th century American
furniture; objects obtained in trade with the Far East, Europe and Surinam;
Paul Revere silver made for Gloucester’s First Parish Church; and
textiles, pewter and glass from area homes of the past.
The Captain Elias Davis House (1804)
adjoins the Museum and is furnished and decorated with emphasis on
domestic life in the early 19th century.
The Folly Cove Designers, working in the
mid-20th century, carved elaborate linoleum blocks and used them to make
block prints on textiles and paper. They were, by their own choice,
artists and craftsmen, actively involved in every step of the printing
process. |
