Winter Associates – Live Auction
May 8 at 5:30 pm
21 Cooke Street, Plainville, CT 06062
www.AuctionsAppraisers.com
860-793-0288

PLAINVILLE, CONN. — On May 8, in an auction starting at 5:30 pm, Winter Associates will offer a variety of discoveries from a historic home in South Windsor, Conn. Included will be an Eighteenth Century Queen Anne highboy and similar lowboy from the Newtown-Woodbury, Conn. area, along with a harvest table, numerous blanket chests, tables, desk and other furniture, as well as coins, roll maps, andirons, early tools, book collection and an 1860 Abraham Lincoln & Hannibal Hamlin campaign ferrotype or tintype pendant, among others. From other New England homes and estates comes a further selection of early American furniture, Americana, traditional and contemporary art; garden and other sculpture; coins; early silver hollowware, flatware and serving pieces, etc.; large collection of books, including Walt Whitman and variety of Nineteenth Century Asian items; rugs; glass; ephemera, etc.

A sculptor who in the course of his career displayed his monumental works in New York City, Massachusetts and throughout Connecticut, artist Morton Fishman (American, 1936-2018) created works of wide variety. One of his largest commissioned works, “Liberty Tree,” placed in Liberty Commons, Boston, was 28 feet high and 48 feet in diameter and sculpted from 48,000 pounds of aluminum tubing. Large outdoor sculptures were also exhibited at the University of Hartford Gengras Center and the CT General Life Insurance Building, both in Bloomfield, as well as Constitution Gallery, Hartford, and many others. Fishman’s work is also in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Mass., the Slater Museum of Norwich, Conn., and the William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, New Britain Museum of Art.

Often covered by the press, he appeared on the 1968 cover of Art Review magazine, CT General News Letter, Snips Industrial Magazine and numerous articles in the Hartford Courant as well as on various TV shows. More than 25 sculptures will be offered, cast in steel or aluminum, or created from found metal objects.

Charles Ethan Porter, a well-known African American Connecticut artist, leads the traditional offerings with an oil on canvas still life of roses, along with a Thomas Hart Benton 1936 lithograph “Missouri Farm Yard.” Contemporary artworks include Michael Waugh micrography dyptch lithos,“ Grand Materernite” after Pablo Picasso, midcentury still life by Henry Varnum Poor, etc. Contemporary furnishings include a pair of Hans Olsen for Vatne Mobler rosewood and leather chairs, Danish rosewood wall mirror by Aksel Kjersgaard, midcentury arc lamp with marble base, Danish side chairs etc.

This sale will be live at the firm’s gallery. Winter Associates’ auction catalog is available online at www.auctionsappraisers.com as of Friday, April 28. Previews are Friday, May 5, from noon to 4 pm.; Sunday, May 7, from 2 to 4 pm; and on Monday, May 8, from noon to 5 pm. Previewers are welcome at other times by appointment. Winter Associate is at 21 Cooke Street. For more information, www.auctionsappraisers.com or 860-793-0288.

Previews: Friday, May 5th, 12-4 pm Sunday, May 7th, 2-4 pm Monday, May 8th, 12-5pm or by appointment.
Early American furniture and decorative arts; Traditional & Contemporary Art; Garden Sculpture; Coins; Silver; Books; Asian; Rugs; Glass; Ephemera, etc.
View catalog online as of Apr. 28th at www.AuctionsAppraisers.com
Americana from a Connecticut home including: 18th C. Connecticut Queen Anne highboy and lowboy; slant lid desk on frame, harvest table, fire screen, tall case clock, blanket chests (3), drop leaf table, stand, etc.; Americana including primitive tools, cookware, boxes, buckets, brassware, fireplace tools, treenware, hair trunk, table-top chests, etc.; Contemporary furniture include pair of Hans Olsen for Vatne Mobler armchairs, arc floor lamp, Danish rosewood mirror by Aksel Kjersgaard, Danish teak side chairs, lucite rolling stand, etc.; Paintings (35+) including Charles Ethan Porter oil, 19” h., Henry Varnum Poor, Benard Karfiol, Harry Farlow, Charles Noel Flagg, Michael Matthews, Peppino Gino Mangravite, George Turner, Fredrick Fenetty, Paul Zimmerman, Morton Fishman, Albertus E. Jones, etc.; Prints include Michael micrography litho pair, T.H. Benton “Missouri Farm Yard”, After Pablo Picasso “Grand Maternite”, Francisco Zuniga, Adolf Arthur Dehn, John Stobart, Margery Ryerson, John Willis, etc.; Sculpture including assorted Morton Fishman (American, 1936 – 2018) of CT, 25 pieces cast in steel or created from found metal objects, 95” h. to 8” h; Coins (9 lots) including silver proofs, American 1895 $5 gold coin, Austrian 1915 gold coins, 1787 Fugio cent, etc.; Silver including George III period and style tea set; London 1838 sterling flatware, 58 pcs, Bigelow Bros & Kennard, Lincoln & Foss, Ball, Black & Co., Dominick and Haff, Mulholland Brothers, William H. Thompson, Tuttle Silversmiths, etc.; Books (20+ lots) including Walt Whitman, etc.; Asian including 18th C. Chinese Export urns, 14” h.; eight immortals, Qing, 9” h.; Chinese bone
56” l. dragon boat, robes (2), altar box, chess set, shibayama tusk, cloisonné, shaded enamel on silver, jardineres, brush paintings, nesting tables, hibachi, etc.; Rugs (18) including antique and semi-antique, sizes range from 13’ 2” x 9’ 8” to 4’ x 6’; Glass including Peter Bramhall, Ernest Gordon for Åfors, Durand gold aurene, Lalique (11), paperweights (8), early bottles gin, early wine and spirit bottle, two chestnut flask bottles, etc.