Winter Associates – Live Auction
April 7th at 5:30PM
www.AuctionsAppraisers.com
21 Cooke Street, Plainville, CT 06062

PLAINVILLE, CONN. — Discovered in the basement of a Connecticut home, Kawase Hasui’s woodblock print “Seiten no yuki Miyajima (A fine winter’s sky at Miyajima)” is notable for its creation before the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, which caused the destruction of many woodblock prints. This rendering of the Twelfth Century shrine retains good color and intact edges, the latter important for collectors due to the presence of the publisher’s seal in the left margin. From the same household there will be art glass, including Steuben and an assortment of squash blossom necklaces and cuff bracelets of Southwest silver jewelry, including Navajo, many signed.

These items and more will be offered in an April 7 auction by Winter Associates, with a starting time of 5:30 pm.

Three original oils by Linda Nelson Stocks (1938-2011), a Woodbury, Conn., native known for her primitive style, will be offered, including a winter snow scene, spring landscape with pink blooming cherry trees and a beach scene with idyllic Cape Cod scenery.

Stocks painted picturesque scenes of small-town life in New England for more than three decades, favoring women, children and animals as subjects and often painting her own dogs into her works. Since the 1980s, the artist’s works have been reproduced as wall calendars, canvas prints and posters, puzzles and even Christmas ornaments. As requested in Stocks’s will, proceeds for these works will be for the benefit of the Connecticut Community Fund, specifically for people with health emergencies in the Waterbury and Litchfield Hills regions of Connecticut, where she had her home. Other original artwork from a second source will benefit Habitat for Humanity, many of these are paintings and prints by Connecticut and New England Twentieth Century artists.

Americana, including weathervanes, trade signs and early American furniture from Connecticut estates, will cross the block. A copper full-bodied cow weathervane in the manner of Fiske is a top highlight, along with a heavily patinaed whale weathervane, large carved-wood fish sign with glass eye, and a two-sided textured trade sign that reads “Jewelry, Clock, Watches” on an iron hanging bracket with sanded finish.

American antiques, many with early paint, include an Eighteenth Century Pennsylvania floor cabinet with blue paint, two Eighteenth Century New England blanket chests with red paint, one with distinctively turned “turnip” feet and the other with a boldly shaped skirt, several tall chests, hanging cupboards, armchairs and an upholstered country sofa. The furniture will be complemented by an oil on canvas portrait by Joseph Oriel Eaton featuring a young brunette woman portrayed in three-quarter profile and in a lavish dress of the Civil War period. Eaton specialized in portraiture and famously painted Herman Melville, author of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick. For collectors interested in nautical items a collection of scrimshaw whale teeth featuring whale hunts, presidential figures, ship portraits and battles, portraits of seamen, etc. will be offered.

Continental decorative items to be sold will include Flight Barr & Barr, Dresden, Meissen, Royal Worcester and other porcelain inkwells from a New Haven collector, most with finely hand-painted decoration, motifs include insects, landscapes, flowers and foliate designs. Other ceramics, including Staffordshire figures and inkwells, parian busts, Doulton Lambeth hollowware, Measham Bargeware and more will also be offered. Also from local estates is an assemblage of jewelry, bronze sculptures with many after Continental masters, the largest measuring 28 inches in height; Continental and Asian miniature portraits; treenware; coins including a 1979 South African Krugerrand; sterling hollowware and serving pieces; and more.

This sale will be live at the firm’s gallery at 21 Cooke Street. Winter Associates’ auction catalog is available online at www.auctionsappraisers.com as of March 28. Previews are Friday, April 4, from noon to 4 pm.; Sunday, April 6, from 2-4 pm.; and on Monday, April 7, from noon to 5 pm. Previewers are welcome at other times, by appointment.

For additional information, 860-793-0288 or www.auctionsappraisers.com.

View catalog online as of March 28th at www.AuctionsAppraisers.com
Americana including Furniture, Weathervanes, Trade Signs, Scrimshaw, etc.; Antique Jewelry, Southwestern Silver; Paintings & Prints, 19th C. to Contemporary; Antique and other silver; Continental miniatures, porcelain, bronze sculptures, etc.; Asian woodblocks, ceramics; Oriental Rugs, etc.
Previews: Friday, Apr. 5th, 12-4 pm Sunday, Apr. 6th, 2-4 pm Monday, Apr. 7th, 12-5pm or by appointment.
42” 1. carved wood late 19th/ early 20th C. trade sign
Kawase Hasui, 1921, oban
James Ken; 1 of 3 monoprints
Asian & German stlg
16 lots Scrimshaw
Goyard canvas steamer trunk c. 1895
1979 Krugerrand
62 pc Stlg
18K, diam., lapis
Hollow-bodied copper, American, late 19th C./ early 20th C., whale: 37” 1., cow: 26” 1.
40 pcs Navajo/ Southwest silver
15+ Continental bronzes
1 of 4 squash blossom
Flight, Ban & Barr, etc., 20+ lots
28” h. bronze
Platinum, sapphire, diam.
1 of 4 David Barefords oils., largest: 45” w.
Victorian 14K, 16” 1.
14K Piccard garnets
Linda Nelson Stocks, 2 of 3 oils, largest: 16” h.
Two-sided, 28” 1.
J. O. Eaton, 1862 oil, 29” h.
18K and Pearl
18th / 19th C. American
American, c. 1800
L. & J.G. Stickley#558
Edwardian diam., 14K and platinum
18th C. Pennsylvania
Two New England early 18th C. blanket chests with older red finish
TERMS: IN-PERSON AUCTION AUDIENCE
Auction begins at 5:30 PM. In addition to live bidding, Winter Associates will accept absentee and phone bids with a 23% Buyer’s Premium and live online bidding will be available on Invaluable.com and Liveauctioneers.com with a 28% Buyer’s Premium. A 3% discount is available to buyers with cash and approved checks. After the auction, pickup will be by appointment only, please email us at Info@AuctionsAppraisers.com or call ahead and we will do our best to accommodate you.
LOCATION: 20 mins, west of Hartford, CT. Approx. 2 hours from NYC or Boston.
Winter Associates, Inc. • 21 Cooke St. Plainville, CT 06062 • 860-793-0288 • Contact us at: Info@AuctionsAppraisers.com