Thomaston Place Auction Galleries – Three Day Sale Of 2023
February 24, 25 & 26
51 Atlantic Highway, Thomaston ME 04861
www.thomastonauction.com
info@thomastonauction.com
207-354-8141

THOMASTON, MAINE — On February 24, 25 and 26 at 11 am, Thomaston Place Auction Galleries will present a collection of rarities and fresh-to-the-market finds. The sale will include selections of paintings and sculpture, estate jewelry, antique and modern furniture, folk art, collectibles, Asian artifacts and decorative accessories.

Thomaston Place owner and auctioneer Kaja Veilleux said, “This sale offers an intriguing and diverse inventory, with items ranging from the Seventeenth Century to the Twenty-First Century, and items to appeal to all collecting tastes.”

There will be a substantial group of Old Master paintings, including a work depicting a view in southern France by Claude Le Lorrain (French, 1600-1682), a painting titled “The Carnival” by Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695-1736), and two unsigned late Seventeenth Century harbor scenes depicting Dutch warships.

Leading contemporary paintings will include a watercolor and graphite work titled “Study for Island Geese” by Jamie Wyeth (b 1946 ); “Flora,” a 1966 painting by Rene Portocarrero (Cuban, 1912-1985); a 1956 oil on Masonite work by Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) depicting a leaf and chaise lounge; “Winter Night” a 1995 work by Maine artist Linden Frederick (b 1953); and three Cubist abstract paintings by Serge Charchoune (Russian-French, 1888-1975).

A signed 1965 offset lithograph in four colors titled “Shipboard Girl” by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) will be offered, along with an Andy Warhol (1929-1987) “Campbell’s Soup” (Cream of Mushroom) 1968 limited edition serigraph.

The sale will also include artwork by William Rowland Davis (1879-1944), James Edward Buttersworth (1817-1894), Thomas Sully (1783-1872), Everett Lloyd Bryant (1864-1965), Dean Cornwell (1892-1960), Antonio Saura (Spanish, 1930-1998), Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Aaron Draper Shattuck (1832-1928), Robert Swain Gifford (1840-1905), William Dethlef Koerner (1878-1938), Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and many others.

A large carved and polychrome painted rooster by itinerant artist Wilhelm Schimmel (1817-1890) will lead the folk art offerings along with a carved fish design tete-a-tete chair by Stephen Huneck (1948-2010); and a carved wall-mounted eagle figurehead, possibly from a Nineteenth Century US Navy officer’s launch. The sale will also offer three weathervanes, five ship models and 13 scrimshaw decorated whale’s teeth.

The 196-lot estate jewelry and watch collection will include a vintage platinum and gold ring center set with a 4.55-carat Old European cut diamond, an Elwood Van Clief platinum ring set with 4.49-carat natural emerald flanked by trillion cut diamonds and a Cartier 18K gold woven choker form necklace in original box.

Featured among the large selection of Asian artifacts will be a Chinese Ming dynasty period gilt-bronze seated Guanyin figure, a pair of Chinese imperial yellow square porcelain vases with four-character Qianlong mark and a Japanese Meiji period “Cracked Ice” pattern maki lacquer tansu box.

The diverse furniture collection will include two pietra dura inlaid marble octagonal top tables; a rare Pilgrim century mushroom arm slat-back armchair; an Eighteenth Century French provincial blue painted armoire; a Heywood Wakefield Topaz blonde finish dining set; and many other antique, midcentury and contemporary pieces.

The sale will also present art pottery by Grueby, Rookwood and Harrison McIntosh (1914-2016); and glass pieces by Tiffany Studios, Loetz and Steuben.

Other items of interest will include a handcrafted canoe from Sebec, Maine; Judith Lieber evening bags; and a Bally “Amigo” pinball machine. On Friday, February 25, collections of luxury pens, inkwells, Mettlach steins, tea caddies, early toys and World War II war bond posters will be sold.

The gallery will be open for previews from Monday through Friday, February 13-17 (9 am to 4 pm); Saturday, February 18 (10 am to 3 pm); and Monday through Thursday, February 20-23 (9 am to 4 pm). Previewing will also be available on auction days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, February 24, 25 and 26, from 9 to 11 am.

Thomaston Place Auction Galleries is on US Route 1. For information, 207-354-8141 or www.thomastonauction.com.

Preview: February 13-23, 9am to 4pm (Sat. 10am to 3pm, CLOSED Sun.)
2242 School of BONAVENTURA PEETERS Dutch Harbor Scene
2364 German Renaissance Style Portrait
2145 EVERETT LLOYD BRYANT
2139 ALBERT BIERSTADT Mountain Vista
2154 HERMANN FUESCHEL 2080 Scrimshaw, Whale’s Tooth (1 of 12)
2143 EDMUND DARCH LEWIS
2009 WILHELM SCHIMMEL Large Folk Art Rooster
2010 Pilgrim
2077 JAMES EDWARD BUTTERSWORTH Century Armchair New York Harbor ( 1 of 2)
2268 Blonde Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy (1 of 28)
2156 19th C. Caucasian Rug 7’4″X6’3″
2017 Maine Inn Sign
3026 Tobacco Shop Trade Sign
2024 Moses Peck, Boston Tall Clock (1 of 9)
2162 After J.J. AUDUBON “Bien” Edition Lithograph (1 of 2)
3027 1890’5 Rockland, Maine – Main St. Sign
3016 BARRY NORLING Lobster Dinner
2195 Federal Bowfront Chest
2076 Wall-Mounted Eagle
2167 THOMAS SULLY Mrs. Thomas Leaming, Jr
2160 Queen Anne Tiger Maple Chest-On-Stand
2310 18th c. French Armoire
2125 Flags From Pearl Harbor
2120 Luger P08 Pistol
3216 WILLIAM H. D. KOERNER (1 of 11)
2288 After SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
2183 George Washington Sculpture
3111 JOSEPH MAZZOLINI, Grace Caroline Nye portrait 2273
2270 JOHN 0. BANKS, The Broken Jug
2126 C ARLO ROMANELLI ► President F.D.R.
2083 1804 Document Signed by Jefferson & Madison
2273 FREDERICK GOODALL, R.A.
3109 Victorian Hall Tree
2328 ANTOINE-LOUISE BARYE
2331 Follower of JACQUES COURTOIS Pair of Scenes from the Great Turkish War of1683-1699
2367 18th c. Santa Lucia Statue
3269 DEAN CORNWELL
3151 Hans Wegner Armchair
3193 Heywood Wakefield Topaz Dining Set
2334 French Cylinder Desk with Cabinet
2390 17th c. Spanish Gothic Continental Santos
2247 GERARD SEGHERS Der Auferstandene Christus
2254 17th c. Northern European Ecce Homo
2245 JEAN-BAPTISTE PATER The Carnival
2244 CLAUDE LE (GELLEE) LORRAIN