Winter Associates – Live Auction
April 25th at 5:30PM
21 Cooke Street, Plainville, CT 06062
www.AuctionsAppraisers.com
860-793-0288
Previews: 4/22: 12–4 pm, 4/24: 2–4 pm, 4/25: 12–5pm or by appointment.

PLAINVILLE, CONN. — Winter Associates has an auction on April 25 that reflects the fact that the firm specializes in estate liquidation. It will be an eclectic sale with a selection of paintings, prints, jewelry and silver, Handel and miniature lamps, silver, Tiffany, Steuben and Baccarat glass, a collection of Gouda art pottery, American and Continental furniture, Oriental carpets, etc.

From a Connecticut collection comes a selection of American art, including work by Alaska’s foremost historical landscape painter, Sydney Mortimer Laurence, as well as Oscar Berninghaus and Guy Arthur Wiggins. Laurence’s oil painting is a theme he repeats featuring a food cache and campfire. “Winter at the Metropolitan” by Guy Wiggins may be a more familiar scene to many than the wilderness landscapes of Alaska, but it is again the use of color and atmospheric perspective that draws the eye through the snow-covered streets and to the iconic doors of America’s largest art museum. Interestingly, at age 20, Wiggins became the youngest artist to have a work in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the purchase of “The Metropolitan Tower.”

A wide range of Tiffany & Company wares are being offered, including jewelry, silver, glass and desk accessories. An 18K yellow gold, sapphire, ruby and diamond basket-form brooch is a featured lot, along with an 18K and ruby tie bar and cufflinks. An unusual small and sleek silver salver on ball feet is notable for its mixed metal copper inlay and is a pleasing juxtaposition with the Art Nouveau “Abalone” pattern five-piece Tiffany Studios desk accessory set from the early 1900s, elaborately inset with abalone discs. Also featured are three lots of signed Favrile Louis Comfort Tiffany art glass, including a pair of blue spiral candlesticks, a gold 8½-inch-wide iridescent bowl with undulating rim and a centerpiece with lily decoration and flower frog. From the same collection are two Steuben blue Aurene pieces, a flower-top perfume bottle and 6-inch vase.

Those interested in Connecticut artists will be pleased to learn that a second offering of Monroe, Conn., Burr Sisters artworks will be coming across block, as well as the first half of a representative collection of George Davidson works, a well-known Connecticut muralist raised in Waterbury and was active in Roosevelt’s WPA program. Both collections feature a variety of landscapes, drawings and portraits.

Also offered are two Handel lamps, including a Scarlett McCaw. Handel formed in 1885 in Meriden, Conn., to be a less expensive option to Tiffany’s glass lamps. Handel was known for its handsome, hand painted shades created by highly talented artisans; reverse painted shades required a painstaking painting process, with the finest details being placed first. It was only the depths of the Great Depression that was able to dampen Handel’s light, and they closed their doors in 1936.

Winter Associates’ auction catalog becomes available online as of Friday, April 15.

Previews are Friday, April 15, noon to 4 pm; Sunday, April 17, from 2 to 4 pm; and on Monday, April 18, from noon to 5 pm. Previewers are welcome at other times by appointment. For additional information, at www.auctionsappraisers.com or 860-793-0288.

Paintings & Prints; Jewelry; Silver; Handel & Miniature Lamps; Glass & Art Pottery; American & Continental Furniture; Oriental Carpets, etc. American paintings including Laurence, Berninghaus and Wiggins as well as collections of works by the Burr Sisters and George Davidson (over 100 lots), Prints including Henry Moore; Jewelry including Tiffany, Cartier, Alex Sepkus and Steuben (45 lots); Handel reverse painted shade table lamps and single owner collection of 61 miniature oil lamps; Silver including Tiffany, Georg Jensen, Gorham, Reidlich, Asprey, etc.; Glass including Tiffany, Steuben, Baccarat, Loetz, Palais Royale; Gouda Art Pottery (17 lots); Early American & Continental furniture; Oriental Carpets, etc.
Sterling
Gorham Hawkes “Athenic”
Tiffany “Abalone”
Guy A. Wiggins, oil, 18” h.
Oscar Berninghaus, oil, 9” h.
Sydney M. Laurence, Cache & Campfire, oil, 26” h.
Tiffany 18K, sapphire, ruby & diamond
Davidson oil, 64” h., 1 of 15 lots
18K, Ruby, diamond
Tiffany mixed metal
14K semi-precious
Cont.; Asprey silver
Steuben
Tiffany 18K and ruby tie bar
Jensen “Acorn” 70 pcs
Louis C. Tiffany Favrile
Reidlich sterling
John C. Terelak, oil, 25” h.
Handel “Mccaw”
Miniature lamps, 61 pcs
Handel 5664
Steuben
Burr Sisters, 28 lots
Peter Adams, oil, 39” h.
R. Solotaire, Portland, Maine, 23” h.
Springfield & other, 1840 – 1873
14K, 60 points
Chinese, 36” h.
c. 1900, carved mahogany
Herend, 55 pcs
Thomas Rose trompe l’oeil
U. S. Military, c. 1870
Renaissance Revival marble top
G. Gambogi, 51” h.
Queen Anne
Steinway 1901 “O” model
American c. 1798
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 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.
View catalog online as of April 15th at www.AuctionsAppraisers.com