Thomaston Place Auction Galleries Winter Feature Auction
February 11 — Day 1
Session One — Lots 1-330
Americana & Folk Art from the Leo Wilensky Collection
All offered without reserve
Session Two — Lots 331-500
Americana & Folk Art
February 12 — Day 2
Fine Art & Antiques — Lots 501-987
Preview: Mon–Fri, Feb. 6–10 from 9am to 5pm
Held at our gallery in Thomaston, Maine

HIGHLIGHTS
• Rare American Minstrel “Jim Crow” Trade Figure
• 18th c. Townsend & Goddard Newport Block & Shell Chest
• Portrait of George Washington by Jane Stuart (MA, 1812 – 1888)
• William Rush American Indian Tobacconist Figure
• American Folk Art Family Portrait, poss. by Ammi Phillips
• Oil painting by Jan Havickszoon Steen (Netherlands, 1626-1679)
• Monumental 19th c. Fire Engine Pumper Weathervane
• MA Pilgrim Century Oak Chest
• Important Centennial Patchwork Quilt
• 2 Soap Hollow Paint Decorated Chests
• 18th c. Red Painted Queen Anne Miniature Highboy
• Rare ca. 1740 Boston Silver Bowl by Jacob Hurd (c. 1702-1758)
• Fine ca. 1800 Liquor Chest with USS Constitution attribution
• 18th c. Painted Windsor Armchair from Sullivan Dorr House, RI
• Erastus Salisbury Field (MA/NY, 1805-1900) Portraits
• Bronze sculptures by Feliks Chodorovic, Louis Hottot and Gaston Leroux
• 2 Early MA Trade Signs
• 47 Lots of 14th-18th c. Lighting
• 22 Fine Boxes and Tea Caddies
• 112 Lots of Oriental Antiques
• 23 Native American items
• 10 Needlework Memorials and Samplers
• Selection of cast iron and Steiff toys
Several Lots of Early Brass Candlesticks
Lot 48 – Important New York Silkwork on Linen Sampler. 6- 1/2” x 15” Est. $6000 – 8000
Lot 50 – Rare & Exquisite Centennial Patchwork Quilt, dated 1876. Est. $20000 – 30000
Lot 545 – Pair of Bronze Gilded and Marble Napoleon III Greek Revival Five-Socket Candelabrum, 29- 1/2” high. Est. $10000 – 15000
Lot 26 – Fine Rare Folk Art Hooked Rug, circa 1860. 23- 1/2” x 40” Est. $12000 – 15000
A Variety of Mortar & Pestles Large and Small
Lot 513 – Dent Hardware Co. Cast Iron Toy Fire Pumper. Est. $2000 – 3000
Lot 46 – Important Needlework ‘Memorial to Washington’ by Cynthia Bushnell Wilcox, 1804, 21- 3/4” x 17- 3/4” Est. $8000 – 10000
Lot 25 – 19th c. American Cast Iron Model of Greyhound Dog, 21” x 53” x 15” Est. $4000 – 6000
Lot 437 – Ushak Carpet, West Anatolia, early 20th c., 9’ x 13’ Est. $1000 – 1500
Lot 911 – Antique Chinese Area Rug, 24” X 48” Est. $800 – 1200
Lot 53 – Large Oval Burlwood Maple Bowl, 18th c. 11- 1/2” x 22” x 17- 1/4”. Est. $4000 – 6000
Lot 544 – Solid Onyx Belle Epoch Jewelry Casket, circa 1875, 6- 5/8” x 12- 3/4” x 9- 3/4” Est. $2500 – 3500
Lot 609 – One of 23 Native American Lots. Apache Saddle Bag. Roughly 30” x 13-1/2” overall. Est. $800 – 1000
Lot 265 – Charles II Period Dome Top Petit Point Storage Box, 14” x 22- 1/2” x 16- 1/2”Est. $4000 – 6000
Lot 566One of nine fur coat lots
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Lot 710 – Charles Kiffer (FR, 1902-1992)“Maurice Chevalier” a broadside lithograph, ca. 1936. Sheet: 62” x 46-1/2” Est. $2000 – 3000
Lot 37 – Erastus Salisbury Field (MA/NY, 1805-1900) – “Portrait of Phineas Field, Painted by Erastus Salisbury Field, his brother. Done 1831”, oil on canvas, 32” x 26- 1/2” Est. $10000 – 15000
Lot 715 – Tamara De Lempicka (CA/NY 1898-1980) – Portrait of Michelangelo (1475-1564), graphite and white chalk, 16- 1/2” x 13”. Est. $2500 – 3500
Lot 400 – Jane Stuart (MA, 1812-1888)Portrait of George Washington, circa 1850, 31” x 23”Est. $75000 – 150000
Lot 331 – Jan Havickszoon Steen (Netherlands, 1626-1679)“The Joke”, oil on panel, 22 1/2” x 19”Est. $40000 – 60000
Lot 56 – Itinerent Potrait of a Child, oil on canvas, unsigned, circa 1840, New England, 40- 3/4” x 30- 1/2”. Est. $10000 – 15000
Lot 751 – Two Setters on Point, signed lower right ‘S. Boldini’, 23-3/4” x 33-3/4” Est. $1000 – 1500
Lot 250 – William Henry Machen (OH/DC, 1832-1911) “After the Battle”, oil on canvas, 32” x 37”, SS: 24-1/2” x 29-1/2”. Est. $10000 – 15000
Lot 587 – George Forster (NY/GR, 1817-1896)Still Life, oil on canvas. (One of two G. Forster paintings)Est. $3000 – 5000
Lot 583 – Louis Henry Charles Moeller (NY, 1855-1930), oil on panel, 15” x 14” Est. $2500 – 3500
Lot 666 – Walter Franklin Lansil (MA/ME, 1846-1925) – oil on canvas, 16” x 22”Est. $800 – 1200
Lot 119 – Attributed to Thomas Chambers (NY/UK, 1808-1866/69) ‘New York Harbor Showing Castle Williams’, oil on canvas, 21” x 27” Est. $10000 – 15000
Lot 581 – John W. Brown (UK, 1842-1928)“Gee that’s great”, oil on canvas, 27” x 37”Est. $4000 – 6000
Lot 899 Pair of Rare Japanese Mixed Metal Vases, 10- 5/8” x 5- 7/8”Est. $1000 – 1500
Lot 905 – Pair of Huanghuali Wood Ming Style Armchairs, 19th c. Est. $1000 – 1500
Several Lots of Asian Arts and Antiques
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Lot 363 – Pair of Josiah Loring Desk Top Globes in their original stands, Terrestrial and Celestial, dated 1833 & 1834Est. $8000 – 10000
Lot 160 – Queen Anne Walnut Veneered Five-Drawer Shell-Front Lowboy, 18th c. Est. $35000 – 45000
Lot 40 – 18th c. Berks County, PA, Softwood Paint Decorated Small Wall Cabinet, 36- 3/4” x 31- 1/2” x 17” Est. $12000 – 15000
Lot 65 – Spectacular Soap Hollow Mennoite Chest, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1873, 54- 1/2” tall overall, 40” x 20- 1/2” Est. $25000 – 30000
Lot 155 – 18th c. Rhode Island Mahogany Fall Front Chippendale Writing Desk, Est. $10000 – 15000
Lot 150 – 18th c. Townsend & Goddard Block and Shell Mahogany Chippendale Chest, circa 1770 Est. $100000 – 150000
Lot 200 – New York State Queen Anne Mahogany Highboy, circa 1730, attributed to the NY cabinet maker, Robert Carter. Est. $20000 – 30000
Lot 80 – Pennsylvania Sawbuck Brace Table, circa 1800, 31” H x 67” x 33”. Est. $3000 – 5000
Lot 20 – Rare 18th c. Red Painted Pine Queen Anne Child Size High Chest, Delaware Valley Region, circa 1750-1770. 38” high, 19- 1/2” x 13- 1/2” Est. $30000 – 40000
Lot 235 – Sheraton Bow Front Chest with Fall Front Secretary top, Portsmouth, NH. Est. $2000 – 3000
Lot 395 – Figured Mahogany Secretary Desk attributed to John & Thomas Seymour of Boston, circa 1800Est. $8000 – 12000
Lot 380 – Rare Outsider Art Carved and Polychrome Painted Pine Stepback Cupboard, ca. 1890-1910 Est. $2000 – 3000
Lot 445 – New England Country Two-Part Corner Cabinet, 19th c., 87” x 54” x 24” Est. $1500 – 2000
Lot 550 – Louis XV Style Mahogany Mirror Back Display Cabinet, 19th c. Est. $4000 – 6000
Lot 175 – Chippendale Ball & Claw Foot Highboy, 18th c. Est. $20000 – 25000
Lot 220 – (Set of 6) Baltimore Paint Decorated Carved Seat Chairs, circa 1830. Est. $6000 – 8000
Lot 148 – Bow & Brace Back Painted Windsor Armchair, 18th c. 18” seat, 27- 1/2” arms, 38- 3/4” back, 25” x 22-1/2 Est. $8000 – 10000
A Selection of Early Candlestands
Lot 236 – Large New York Gilded Pier Mirror. Est. $3000 – 5000
Lot 435 – Country Pencil Post New England Hardwood Canopy Rope Bed, roughly 60” x 80” x 72” tall. Est. $1000 – 1500
Lot 170 – Walnut Queen Anne Lowboy, 18th c., 30- 1/2” H x 36” x 19- 1/2” Est. $8000 – 10000
Lot 195 – Mahogany Chippendale Ball & Claw Foot Kneehole Desk, New York, circa 1755-1790 Est. $8000 – 10000
Lot 178 – New England Queen Anne Tea Table, 18th c., 26” x 29” x 19- 1/2”. Est. $8000 – 10000
Lot 180 – Tiger Maple Queen Anne Bandy Leg Desk, 18th c., probably New Hampshire Est. $8000 – 10000
Lot 130 – Important Pilgrim Century Chest of Drawers, 1690-1710. 41” H x 37- 1/2” x 22”Est. $30000 – 40000
Lot 270 – Ornate Forged Iron Strong Box, from Nuremberg, Germany, dated 1731, 18- 1/2” x 32” x 20”. Est. $4000 – 6000
Lot 210 – 18th c. Solid Mahogany Chippendale Reverse Serpentine Front Desk, Massachusetts, circa 1760-1780. Est. $5000 – 7000
Lot 440 -Colonial Tall Clock, Pennsylvania Dutch Painted Softwood Case, dated 1768. Est. $3000 – 4000
Lot 140 – Jacobean Oak Spice Cabinet on Stand, 17th c. Est. $10000 – 15000
Lot 165 – Solid Cherry Highboy, probably made in the Amherst-Northampton, MA area, 18th c. Est. $25000 – 35000
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Lot 100 – Important Historical American Minstrel Figure of “Jim Crow” or “Daddy Rice” the “Dancing Negro” theatrical characte52” x 12” x 12” (70” overall). Est. $125000 – 175000
Lot 90 – Rare Tobacconist Figure of an American Indian by William Rush (1756-1833), 42” x 20” x 15”. Est. $75000 – 100000
Lot 125 – 19th c. Monummental American Fire Engine Steam Pumper Weathervane, 19th c., 31” x 88- 1/2” (7’4- 1/2”) x 7”, 56” tall on stand. Est. $40000 – 60000
Lot 105 – Folk Art Carved Penguin, carved by Charles Hart (MA, 1862-1960), 37” high, 16” x 17”. Est. $4000 – 6000
Lot 75 – Monumental American Folk Art Family Portrait, oil on canvas, possibly by Ammi Phillips (NY/CT, 1788-1865), 51” x 83- 3/4”. Est. $80000 – 100000
Lot 375 – Painted Tin Anvil and Hammer Hanging Sign marked “Taft’s”, from Millville, Mass, 19th c., 41” x 50” x 25”. Est. $7000 – 9000
Lot 34 – Painted and Stenciled Wood Fireboard made for the Gabriel Houston House in Sussex County, New Jersey, circa 1830. 37-1/4” x 44-1/2” Est. $20000 – 30000
Lot 124 – Rare Pre-Civil War Paint Decorated Drum with American themes, signed by W.(illiam) S. Tompkins, New York, dated April 26, 1853 Est. $2000 – 3000
Lot 373 – Hand Painted Prohibition Poster, ink and watercolor on muslin, 19th c., 59” x 36-1/2” Est. $2000 – 3000
Lot 353 – Patriotic Folk Art Portrait of the American Eagle, oil on panel, circa 1870, 16 1/2” x 14”, SS: 16 1/2” x 14”Est. $3000 – 4000
Lot 700 – Feliks Ignatevic Chodorovic (RUS, 1840-1913) Bronze Sculpture, 19th c. Est. $4000 – 6000
Lot 516 – Tiffany Studios Bronze Scarab InkwellEst. $7000 – 9000
Lot 390 – Boston Colonial Silver Covered Bowl by Jacob Hurd, ca. 1740 Est. $60000 – 100000
Lot 232 – Mahogany Rosewood and Brass Inlaid Liquor Chest, circa 1800. Reputedly owned by Commodore William Bainbridge (1774-1833) of the USS ‘Constitution’. Est. $10000 – 15000
Lot 357 – Napoleonic Era Warship Model made by French POW depicting a 54 gun Ship of the Line, circa 1800. With case 20” x 22” x 8- 1/4”. Est. $12000 – 16000
Lot 549 – Tiffany & Co. (6) Piece Sterling Silver Tea & Coffee Service, circa 1870s. Est. $2500 – 3500
Lot 665 – Mahogany Ferry Boat Ship’s Wheel Table, 29- 1/2” x 74” diam. Est. $1000 – 1500
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Inc.
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