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Tuesday, May 13th, 7:30pm EST
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Upcoming Fine Estates Auction

Sixteenth Anniversary Fine Estates Auction

Tuesday, July 8th at 1:00pm EST

Featuring Property From Several New York and CT Estates

Our Sixteenth Anniversary Fine Estates Auction being held Tuesday, July 8th, comprises over 375 lots of fresh estate property, and features Part One - Antiques & Decorative Arts from the Estate of Bobbie Hainline Howrey, to include several hundred books on fine art, antiques and various other subjects. Also offered is property from various other estates and collections from New York City, Westchester County New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. The sale will feature estate jewelry, several lots of estate sterling silver, as well as American, English and Continental formal and country furniture and decorations, fine Chinese and European porcelain, fine art and folk art, mid-century modern decorations and estate Oriental carpets. Of special interest are a group of Napoleonic related material, primarily prints and drawings, from an estate in Westchester County and a collections of custom sporting knives from an estate in Fairfield County. In addition, the sale features the Hathaway-Phelps Family important Connecticut Queen Anne cherrywood bonnet top highboy, recently deaccessioned from The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT.

In person preview is by appointment only, and the deadline for absentee and phone bids is noon on Monday, July 7th.

The sale will be "live online" through Live Auctioneers and Invaluable and will begin at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, July 8th.


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The Phelps-Hathaway Connecticut Queen Anne
Cherrywood Bonnet Top Highboy
Suffield-Windsor Area, circa 1750-65
87" high, 39" wide, 19" deep.
On Loan and Exhibited Since 1988
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford CT
Property from a Pennsylvania Collector



Pair Framed Continental W/C, Allegorical Figures
Frame size: 14" high, 11 3/4" wide.
Property from a Washington CT Collection

Pair Chinese Polychrome Pottery Foo Dogs
18" high, 8" wide, 13" deep.
Property from a Washington CT Collection



John Phillip Osborne (Am. b 1951)
Oil on Canvas "Irish Street"
Frame size: 22 1/4" high, 18 1/4" wide.
Property from a Litchfield CT Collection



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Schwenke Auctioneers is located in historic Woodbury, Connecticut, nationally known in the antiques community as "The Antiques Capital of Connecticut" and situated at the beginning of the "Connecticut Antiques Trail". Woodbury is convenient to all major east coast cities, is home to several dozen fine antique shops, and boasts several first class restaurants, inns and spas, all nestled in the scenic general area called the "Litchfield Hills".

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