Over 60 Consignors and Seven Estates Represented on May 21

Woodbury, CT – On Saturday, May 21st at 11:00 am Woodbury Auction presents its second anniversary auction with a diverse offering of 440 lots of fine and decorative art and American and Continental furniture from seven estates and over 60 individual consignors from Connecticut, New York, Virginia, California and New Jersey.

This anniversary auction is being held at 670 Main Street South, Sherman Village Plaza, in Woodbury at 11 a.m.  Preview times are from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on Wednesday, May 18th, Thursday, May 19th, and Friday, May 20th. An extended preview with wine and cheese will be open from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Friday evening. Preview is also available from 8:00 am on the day of sale. In addition, Woodbury Auction experts will be on hand offering free antiques appraisals during the all three days of preview.

Among the furniture highlights of the auction is a fine New Jersey inlaid mahogany tall clock with a silvered dial by Aaron Lane of Elizabethtown, never before offered for public sale. The clock descended in consignor’s family directly from the original owner thought to be John H. Smock (1781-1865), a Monmouth County, New Jersey resident.

Other noteworthy furniture lots are a walnut Queen Anne dressing table which descended in the family of William Pinkney of Maryland, and a very rare set of fourteen Chippendale dining chairs which descended in the Smith family of Derby, Connecticut and Millbrook, New York. Ten of the chairs were sold at Christie’s, Fine American Furniture sale held in January of 1989, and subsequently purchased by the consignor. Those chairs had been exhibited in the Map Room of the White House from 1971 to 1980. The other four chairs were subsequently acquired for the consignor from other members of the family of the original owner.

The sale also features many fine art lots including paintings, prints and drawings by various listed artists including works by Balcomb Greene, Maxfield Parrish, Joseph Henry Sharp, Helen Gerardia, William Castle-Keith, Joseph Pennell, Gordon Grant, Fernand Leger, George Rodrigue, Richard Newton, Jr., Michele Cascella, Frank Moser, Clare Leighton, Lucien Pissaro, L. Bernini, A. Aublet, E. Williams, George Clausen and many others.

Members of a long-standing Woodbury, Connecticut family, who have since moved to Ohio, consigned several Woodbury-related items, including three samplers and two lots of Wallace Nutting photographs of Spruce Brook Farm in Woodbury.

Silver lots to be sold include a Tiffany sterling-rimmed crystal bowl, a four piece tea set of 78 troy ounces, a Lunt “Poppy” flatware service of 188 troy ounces, a Roden Bros. flatware service for twelve of 159 troy ounces, and several lots of silver U.S. coins and other silver items.

Several bronzes are also featured, including a Meiji period bronze elephant, a C. Valton sculpture of two spaniels, and a Bergman cold painted bronze of a praying arab.

Examples of Native American Art are also being offered. Noted among these lots are a plains Indian decorated deer hide, several woven blankets, a rare Northwest Coast rattle, a woven basket and a woods Indian decorated box.

The catalog for the sale is viewable at www.woodburyauction.com. Absentee and phone bidding are available for this live gallery auction, and the sale will be broadcast live through Live Auctioneers.  To register or arrange for absentee or phone bidding, please call Woodbury Auction at 203-266-0323.