Willis Henry Auctions, Inc Winter Antiques Auction
DoubleTree by Hilton
929 Hingham Street,
Rockland, Massachusetts, 02370
Saturday, January 15, 2022 at 11am
Hon. D. Henshaw, Secy. Navy 1843
Previews: Friday, January 14, 10:00-5:00;
Saturday morning, 9:00-10:45 am
www.willishenryauctions.com

ROCKLAND, MASS. — The 2022 New Year auction calendar for Willis Henry Auctions will start January 15 at the DoubleTree by Hilton with a collection from the Belknap family of Newburyport, Mass., and New Hampshire. Having moved to smaller quarters, one of the last remaining members of the family has chosen Willis Henry Auctions to bring to auction many pieces of early Chinese and Japanese Export porcelain, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century silver, family portraits and paintings of coastal New England, including ship portraits and seascapes.

Another collection of Americana represented is from Maryland and formed over 50 years, including pieces purchased from Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Withington Auctions, etc., and will include weathervanes, Eighteenth Century New England furniture, including tall chests, a red tavern table, early corner chair, wing chair, and oil paintings, as well as a rather unique hanging barber sign with three sections in traditional red, white and blue colors.
European paintings and watercolors include a framed after battle scene of Napoleon at Austerlitz and two detailed 1830 watercolors of street scenes in Berlin, one depicting the Palace of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia. Also from a North Shore collection come two Nineteenth Century steamer trunks, both labeled “Louis Vuitton,” Paris and London.
An ephemera collection is represented with a 1782 Revolutionary War major’s suicide letter, originally found in papers from General Benjamin Lincoln of Hingham, Mass. There were three copies that Major Galvin wrote to friends and one copy is in the Philadelphia Historical Society. Another rare group of documents include bills of lading for shipping gold dust from Sacramento City, Calif., to Salem, Mass., in 1849/50. Also to coincide with the stoneware collection is a framed bill with illustrations of decorative crocks and jugs from the Bennington, Vt., factory.

Along with American and European paintings is a French oil on canvas attributed to Fernand Leger, signed and dated (1921?). The verbal provenance from the estate is included with the painting. Three young female students traveled to Paris in early 1930 and met Leger at his studio. One of them returned with the painting “Man w/Dog” and her daughter inherited it. It was consigned from that New York City estate to Willis Henry Auctions.

The auction is open to the public with a preview on Friday, January 14, from 10 am to 5 pm, and Saturday morning from 9 to 10:45 am, with the auction starting at 11 am.
DoubleTree by Hilton is at 929 Hingham Street. For information, 781-834-7774 or www.willishenryauctions.com.
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Gathered from Estates and Collections: New England, New York, Maryland, Cape Cod and South Shore, Mass., 18th and 19th c. furniture, collections of signed oil paintings, watercolors, portraits and Folk Art, Chinese and Japanese Export, large antique silver collections, rare woodenware (Hingham), Oriental and Navajo rugs, large stoneware and redware collections, decoys, nautical antiques and Marine Art, needlework, early lighting, two Louis Vuitton trunks, ephemera, whaling photographs, gold rush documents, Revolutionary War Major’s suicide letter, clocks, early wooden toys. In-person, Online, Phone & Absentee Bidding.
Signed Cephas Thompson
Large Export Collections
Belknap Collection
Chinese Silver
G.EOFF – NY – Tea Service
Rare Silhouette and Watercolor collections
Double Sided Sign
19th C. Maine Chip Carved Busk
DeLand Family Crest (Mass.)
Attributed to F. Leger – Signed
Napoleon at Austerlitz
Stoneware Collections
20+ Pieces
J. Howard Banner Vane
P. E. I. Goose – 30+ Decoys
Kuba – Scatter Rug
38” L – Full Body / Great Color
Original Red 18th C.
18th C. Abington, MA
Chinese Jade
38” High – Signed
Marine Art Collections
Signed Dupre
18th C. N. E. (Maryland Collection)
Signed – Hingham
Navajo w/History
Newport RI Collection
F. Thurlo, Newburyport