Schwenke’s Fall Fine Estates Auction
October 18 at 5:30 pm
50 Main Street North, Woodbury, CT 06798
www.woodburyauction.com
info@woodburyauction.com
203-266-0323

WOODBURY, CONN. — Schwenke Auctioneers marks the return to its original location at 50 Main Street North in Woodbury with an estates auction being conducted at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, October 18. The sale of more than 350 lots is a live-streamed online sale offering live bidding on LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable and Bidsquare, with absentee and phone bidding in-house. Preview times are Saturday and Sunday before the sale from 10 am to 5 pm. Preview is also available at other times by appointment.

The auction features property from several estates and includes Midcentury Modern furniture from the estate of Adolph S. Cavallo, a former museum curator and author of numerous books on early textiles and tapestries; English furniture and decorations from a Greenwich, Conn., estate, including Eighteenth Century and Nineteenth Century items attributed to Gillows from the design book of Thomas Chippendale; decorative arts, including an early maritime framed woolwork and an oil on canvas of Santa Barbara, Calif., by William A. Patty from a collector in Litchfield, Conn.; items from a New Canaan, Conn., estate, including a rare and unique English campaign metamorphic game table; sterling silver from Danbury and Middlebury, Conn., collections; a group of Flora Danica porcelain wares from a European collector; and Nineteenth Century furniture and decorations from a Brooklyn Heights brownstone, including a large-scale Adam-style carved and gilded neoclassical overmantel mirror.

Also included is Tiffany jewelry from a Connecticut collector; a bronze perpetual calendar mantel clock from a Westchester, N.Y., collector; a Georgian slant front desk from a Newtown, Conn., collector; a portrait of a boy possibly by Charles Hawthorne from a Connecticut collector; a Baltimore federal linen press from a West Coast collector; a group of Continental artworks and decorative arts from a New York City collector, including an African Kuba bwoom royalty mask; a group of artworks from another Westchester County, N.Y., collector, including a James Wingate Parr oil on canvas “Beached Trap Boats” previously from the State Street Bank corporate collection; decorations and fine art from a Connecticut collector, including a pair of Jens Rison MCM lounge chairs and a Knoll tulip table.

Also available are several lots of silver from a Madison, Conn., estate, including a Tiffany sterling footed bowl; a substantial grouping of fine and decorative arts from a New London, Conn., collector, including a Woodard MCM tubular brass and leather rocking chair, an early Continental embroidered chasuble vestment and a Curtis Hanson oil on canvas pastoral scene; a group of vintage decorations from a Washington, Conn., collector, including a Lladro porcelain touring car; more than 30 artworks from a New Jersey collector; and a Tiffany sterling Provence pattern flatware service for 12 from a Woodbury estate.

The catalog is viewable at www.woodburyauction.com. This sale is live online with absentee and phone bidding available by registering directly with Schwenke Auctioneers and is available on the firm’s website. It will be broadcast for live real-time internet bidding. For information, 203-266-0323 or www.woodburyauction.com.

Our October 18th Fall Fine Estates Auction features property from several estates, including mid-century modern furniture from the Estate of Adolph S. Cavallo, a former
museum curator and author of numerous books on early textiles and tapestries; important English furniture and decorations from a Greenwich, CT estate, including items attributed to Gillows from the design book of Thomas Chippendale; decorative arts including an early maritime woolwork and an oil on canvas of Santa Barbara, California by Thomas Patty from a collector in Litchfield, CT; items from a New Canaan, CT estate, including a rare and unique English campaign metamorphic game table; sterling silver from Danbury and Middlebury, CT collections; a group of Flora Danica porcelain wares from a European collector; and nineteenth century furniture and decorations from a Brooklyn Heights brownstone, including an important large scale Adam style carved and gilded neoclassical overmantle mirror.
We will be having live preview for this auction. Appointments are requested but not required. Preview Days: Saturday and Sunday before the auction, and by appointment.
The auction will be posted for live bidding Live Auctioneers, Invaluable, and BidSquare,
and phone and in-house absentee bidding will also be available.
A Nemethy, Pastel Katterskill Falls NY
German Porcelain Figural Plaque
18K Gold Elizabeth Taylor White Diamond Atomizer
Very Large Antique Baroque Bronze Door Knocker
Fine George Ill Carved Mahogany Slant Front Desk
West Troy NY Stoneware Crock
Group Dominick & Haff Sterling Flatware
African Kuba Bwoom Mask
Set Four Hamilton Weighted Sterling Candlesticks
C. Johnstone O-C Architectural Landscape
LC Tiffany Favrile Floriform Vase
D’ore Bronze Perpetual Calendar Mantle Clock
Arts & Crafts Oak Two Door Bookcase
J. Duvall, OC Portrait Boy Studying
Erch Piero Batini Chrome-Leather Lounge Chair
Woodard Mid-Century Tubular Brass Rocker
Four Attr Gio Ponti
Antique Polychrome Carved Wood Cherub Pediment
Baltimore Federal Carved Mahogany Linen Press
Lang, Mountain Landscape OB Siqned Lower Riaht
Pair Framed Chinese
Five French Figueres Trompe L’oeil Faience Plates
Pair Upholstered Walnut Baroque Style Easy Chairs
Important Neoclassical Giltwood Overmantle Mirror
Oak Barley Twist Octagonal Table, Cane Top
Gillows China Table, After Chippenddale
Asian Bronze Sculpture of Female, Wood Stand
M. Gerber O-C Snow Scene Washington Park NYC