Schwenke Auctioneers will conduct its Connecticut Estates Auction with a remarkable offering of 790 lots consigned from several separate estates and consignors from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Missouri. The auction includes several fine groups of American country and formal furniture and decorations, American folk art, Yale memorabilia, Asian decorative arts, Mid-Century Modern decorative arts, English and Continental furniture and decorative arts, English & other sterling silver, jewelry, fine art, miscellaneous decorative arts, and estate oriental rugs.
This sale begins at 11:00 am in the firm’s auction hall at 710 Main Street South, Middle Quarter Plaza, in Woodbury. Preview times are Thursday, September 29th through Saturday, October 1st from 10:00am to 5:00pm, and Sunday, October 2nd from 9:00am to 11:00 am sale time.

Specialty Items and Folk Art
One of the lead items in the sale is a remarkable Rustic Adirondack "Brandy Cabinet II" by Randy Holden, crafted in maple, birch and cherry with lighted and mirrored upper section over a pair of cabinet doors, accompanied by a certificate numbered 100 and dated 2005, and measuring 85" high, 50" wide, 33" deep.

Other folk art items include a very fine American Berlin work rug worked with an urn issuing flowering blossoms within a flower and vine border, on a dark blue ground. Signed "Wrought by Priscilla Kepner, January 18(5)0" mounted on a fabric covered frame and measuring 26" high, 59" wide; an American framed needlework sampler, pictorial sampler with homestead within a fruit and vine border, worked by Eleanor Garner, dimensions 24" high, 19" wide; and an American Federal grain painted poplar blanket chest, with fanciful grain painted decoration, on turned feet, sized 28" high, 47" wide, 22 3/4" deep.

Jewelry
Many lots of fine jewelry are on offer, including a men's gold and stainless Rolex date watch #15053, with yellow gold bezel, champagne dial, and gold and stainless band, with box and paperwork. Serial #8395337, 1985, with a 34 mm diameter case; a vintage Cartier 18K gold and green enamel bangle bracelet stamped "Cartier 18K Italy" with inscription "Je Taime Toujours Burt Flurer 1968" measuring 7/16" wide, 2 5/16" inner diameter, 2 5/8" outer diameter, and gross weight: 35 DWT; a sterling silver multi-stone collar mounted with amethyst, citrine, garnet, blue topaz and possibly peridot, 5 1/2" wide, 11" long, gross weight: 4.6 OZT; a Native American sterling silver and amethyst collar stamped "LS" above bow and arrow, second monogram, dated "88", sized 8" long, 4 3/8" inner diameter, and gross weight: 2.97 OZT. Other Native American jewelry includes a large Navajo sterling and amber cuff stamped "Sterling”, wrist size approximately 6 1/2; and a Mexican sterling silver and brass grape form pendant and clip earrings stamped "A. Gelos?", gross weight: 1.565 OZT.

Sterling Silver
Sterling silver lots on the block include an Alphonse La Paglia (Italian, 1907-1953), four piece tea and coffee service designed for International Silver Co. comprising teapot, coffee pot, sugar and creamer, bases stamped "La Paglia Designed", gross weight 101.205 OZT; a Chinese export silver teapot with hand hammered lid and body, three hallmarks on base, one "LH" for Luen Hing, Shanghai c. 1910, measuring 5 1/2" high, 10 1/2" wide and gross weight 16.425 OZT; and a pair of Tiffany and Co. sterling silver serving dishes, monogrammed, sized 2 1/4" high, 8 7/8" wide and weight: 26.59 OZT.
Mid-Century Modern Several lots of Mid-Century Modern are hitting the block in this sale, including an unusual Modernist Lucite chiming grandmother clock with brass and etched metal dial, visible works with 9 chimes, twist turned and pierce carved pendulum, with key, standing 72" high, 17" wide, 11 1/2" deep; a modern round glass table with beveled top and four black enameled metal side chairs with plastic wire wrapped seats, the table 28 1/2" high, 42" diameter, and the chairs 31" high, 18 1/2" wide, 18" deep; and a modern Barcelona style metal chair and ottoman with cushions, the chair 34 1/2" high, 26" wide, 22" deep, and the ottoman 15 1/2" high, 23" wide, 19" deep; and a Gae Aulenti for Knoll maroon
enameled steel dining table, 29" high, 58 1/2" wide, 58 1/2" deep.

Another modern lot of interest is a Rene Lalique clear and frosted opalescent glass vase in the Biskra pattern, with teal green patina, model #1078, design circa 1932, signed on base twice with acid etched block signature "R. Lalique France", measuring 11 1/2" high, 9" deep.

Contemporary Fine Art
Several pieces of modern flat art are being sold, including a Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1991), "Samurai, 1971" lithograph on Japanese Suzuki paper, signed, numbered in pencil lower right "R. Motherwell Proof G", embossed publishers seal to right of signature, sheet size approximately 72" high, 37 1/6" high; a Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011), "Solarium" lithograph, numbered, signed, dated in pencil lower margin "10/18 I. Frankenthaler '64". Framed, not examined out of frame, image size 17 15/16 high, 13 3/4" wide; and a second Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011), "Weathervane" aquatint numbered, signed, dated in pencil lower margin "13/23 Frankenthaler 1969-70", paper watermark "LAE" to left of edition number. Framed, not examined out of frame, plate 19 1/8" high, 14 1/8" wide, sheet approximately 29 7/8" high, 22 4/8" wide.

Fine Art
Over 100 lots of traditional fine art will be sold, including an Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837-1908), "Grand Manan Island" oil on canvas, signed lower right "A.T. Bricher", sight size 17 1/2" high, 35 1/2" wide, and frame size 23 1/2" high, 42" wide. Bricher often spent summers in Grand Manan in New Brunswick, Canada and produced several paintings of the area. Other works include James Gale Tyler (American, 1855-1931), "Craft of 1850", Impressionist harbor scene, oil on canvas signed lower left, titled on stretcher and bearing Manhattan Galleries, Pasadena, California gallery label, sight size 14" high, 20" wide, and Brian Coole (British/American, b. 1939), "New York Harbor c. 1887", oil on board signed lower right, sight size 15 1/2" by 19 1/2".

Possibly important fine art items are an English school work, "The Maypole", possibly Thomas Gainsborough (Eng. 1727-1788), oil on canvas, unsigned, 20" high, 15" wide sight, 28 1/2" high, 23 1/2" wide frame; gilt cove molded frame with inscription "T. Gainsborough"; bearing old collection label verso with date "1761". Attribution reference: Armstrong, "Thomas Gainsborough", London, Seeley & Co., 1894, p. 78. Ref: American Art Association "Illustrated Catalogue of Valuable Paintings", New York, 1912, lot 26; and a drawing of a child, chalk on paper, signed lower right "Renoir", 13 3/4" high, 10 3/8" wide.

Eastern European Art
The sale also includes over 50 lots of Croatian and Eastern European naïve/folk art paintings, being sold for the estate of a prominent New York City dealer/collector who specialized in Croatian Naïve art, which is a classification of art that is often characterized by a childlike simplicity in its subject matter and technique. Many works are included in the grouped lots, and include many reverse paintings on glass, silkscreens, and works in other mediums. Typical of the works offered is a piece by Ivan Rabuzin (Croatian, 1921-2008), "One Huge Flower" oil on canvas, signed, dated lower right "Ivan Rabuzin 1971", sight size 21" high, 28" wide.