Nadeau’s – 2025 Annual Spring American + Continental Antique & Chinese Auction
Saturday April 26, 2025
25 Meadow Rd., Windsor, CT 06095
860-246-2444 NadeausAuction.com

WINDSOR, CONN. — Nadeau’s Auction Gallery will conduct its signature spring event, which starts at 10 am on April 26. The expected top lot in this sale is a Cadillac model 341-B V8 convertible coupe $30/50,000). This brown, tan and two-door car from 1929 features a rumble seat, a soft retractable top, shiny chrome detailing and whitewall tires. It has 43,724 miles on its odometer. Completely restored, the vehicle is being sold with its extensive archive, including its history of repairs, ownership and restoration. It also comes with its original operator’s manual and shop manual book. It was purchased in 1980 by its current owner for $115,000 and hails from the estate of Stephen F. Osborne of Doylestown, Penn.

Antique American-made furniture is well represented in this event. A Chapin School Chippendale highboy is estimated at $8/14,000. This two-part chest of drawers is in the Connecticut River Valley style, dates from 1780 and is made from cherry and Eastern white pine wood. The upper section features a pierced and carved broken pediment and top with a small center carving over three drawers. The bottom section has four graduated drawers and is set on cabriole legs ending in ball and claw feet. The highboy retains its original hardware, has old red finish and measures 80¼ inches tall overall. This example has been featured in reference publications and has full provenance from the Eighteenth Century to the present owners.

An American Federal mahogany Pembroke table is estimated at $2/4,000. This 28-inch-tall example has oval drop leaves with line inlays, bowed ends with a single drawer decorated with a bookend and husk inlay, yellow poplar drawer linings, black cherry hinged rails and Eastern white pine stationary rails. The top measures 31¾ by 40 inches open and 18¾ by 31¾ inches closed. The table was exhibited as part of the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection at Yale University and is being sold by the institution for the benefit of acquisition funds.

A Harvey Ellis designed front desk #706 for Gustav Stickley’s Craftsman Workshops is estimated at $5/10,000. This piece from 1903-1904 is marked with a G. Stickley red stamp and measures 44 by 30 by 11 inches. It is made from quarter-sawn American white oak and features a broad overhanging top beveled on its underside, a slightly canted fall-front with three elaborately decorated recessed panels, an opening to its fitted interior over an open shelf and all-original hand-hammered copper hardware. It was featured at the Jordan-Volpe Gallery exhibit “Genius in the Shadows — The Furniture Designs of Harvey Ellis” March 24 to May 2, 1981, as catalog #14.

Also on offer is a collection of antique paintings, including Alfred Wordsworth Thompson’s (American, 1840-1896) “Washington and The Colonial Inn” ($5/10,000). This artist-signed, oil on canvas measures 18 by 26 inches and is housed in an ornate, giltwood frame with a title plaque along its bottom center. It depicts the Rising Sun Tavern, located in Fredericksburg, Va., with George Washington and his horse preparing for a journey with his aides-de-camp Alexander Hamilton. It is being sold with a handwritten letter from 1919 by Gill’s Art Rooms’ American Paintings Proprietor.

A full length allegorical portrait of Francoise de Mailly (1688-1742) attributed to Jean-Marc Nattier (French, 1685-1766) is estimated at $10/20,000. The 57½-by-44 ½-inch, unsigned oil on canvas painting depicts the dame d’atour to Queen Marie Leszczynska, the wife of King Louis XV, in a silver dress and billowing pink cape among flowers and reeds. This work is from an Essex, Conn., collection.

Asian artwork is another premier sale category. For example, a pair of monumental carved and painted South East Asian guardian foo lions is estimated at $1,5/3,000. Possibly in the form of Thai Singha guardian lions, this duo measures 90 inches tall and 55 inches long and depicts the mythological creatures in a sitting position. They are decorated with inset glass jewels and come to life with prominent, open mouths lined with sharp teeth.

Three Chinese blue and white Kangxi ginger jars ($1/2,000) are unmarked, Eighteenth Century. The lidded baluster containers are decorated in a branches and flower blossom motif. Their lids have teardrop finials. They measure 16, 17 and 16½ inches tall. The trio were previously sold as part of a set of five at Rare Art Inc., New York, in 2002 for $40,000 and are from a Park Avenue, New York City estate.

This sale comes full circle with timepieces and clocks, decorative arts, books, maps, lighting and other antiques. A Samuel Taber mahogany tall clock ($6/9,000), 1810, is signed, measures 98 inches tall and includes its weights and pendulum. It features satinwood inlays with a fretwork top over a tombstone door and a long door flanked by columns. Its base has bracket feet and its dial includes the phases of the moon, a calendar and second hand. A Tiffany Studios counterbalance Damascene desk lamp ($10/15,000) from 1905 is 16 inches tall. Its blue iridescent damascene ribbed Faurice glass shade is 7 inches in diameter and has an etched signature of LCT Favrile.

All lots are available for preview online now at www.nadeausauction.com or live in the gallery on Thursday, April 24 from 2-6:30 pm; Friday, April 25 from noon-5 pm; and Saturday, April 26, from 9-10 am.

Nadeau’s Auction Gallery is at 25 Meadow Road. For information, 860-246-2444 or www.nadeausauction.com.

**1737 Joel Clark House Deaccessioned by Yale University Art Gallery originally donated by Francis P. Garvan.**
Preview Dates: Thursday April 24th, 2pm-6pm, Friday April 25th, 12pm-5pm, Saturday April 26th, 9am-10am
FEATURING 450+ LOTS FROM VARIOUS ESTATES
The auction will begin with a restored 1929 Cadillac model 341-B convertible coupe, complete with history of records followed by Ford Model A Coupe convertible partially restored. Furnishings of note include a Samuel Taber tall case clock, New York inlaid Federal Pembroke Table, a collection of Gustav Stickley mission oak, along with a collection of period French furnishings from a Park Avenue New York City Estate. The sale also includes Tiffany Studios Counter Balance “Damascene” Desk Lamp, 20+ lots of silver highlighted by a pair of Queen Anne tea caddies by Matthew Cooper, a large collection of early Staffordshire, 20+ lots of Chinese porcelain, a large collection of Brumese/Tibetan figures and furnishings, along with over 90 lots of fine art led by Alfred Wadsworth Thompson’s “Washington at the Colonial Inn”, and works by Frank Weston Benson, Josef Schuster, George de Forest Brush, Jean Jacques Hemer, etc. The provenances include items sold by the Yale University Art Gallery for the benefit of acquisition funds, from The Mabel Brady Garvin Collection; the Estate of John L. Hughes of Southport Connecticut; property from the Estate of E.T Krolikowski III of Laurel Beach in Milford Connecticut; part of a collection from Essex Connecticut; The Eric Van Rooy Estate: A Connecticut Gentleman’s Collection; a Park Avenue New York Estate; deaccessioned furniture formerly part of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum’s collection; and the Estate of Stephen F. Osborne of 2185 South Easton Road, Doylestown Pennsylvania.
Tiffany Ht. 16″, Dia. 7″
1929 Cadilac Fully Restored Convertible Coupe
Stephen Tabor, Ht. 98″
Alfred Thompson’s George Washington Oil on Canvas, 18″ x 26″
Harvey Ellis Stickley #706, Part of Collection
1737 Joel Clark House – Interior, 1 of 9 rooms
First Edition Treasure Island Part of Book Collection
18th C. Chapin School Ht. 80″, Wd. 35″
Jean-Marc Nattier Oil on Canvas, 57″ x 44″
Federal Inlaid, Ht. 28″, Wd.19″
Frank Benson, Oil on Canvas, 7 1/2″ x14″
Louis Vuitton Ht. 22″, Wd. 39″
Porcelain, Ht. 17 (Chinese)
1930 Ford Model A Restored
George Inness, Watercolor 8″ x 7″
Roycroft Ht. 16″, Dia. 10″
Sevres
Wiltred Glehn Oil on Canvas 32″ x 25″
Chippendale Cherry Wd. 36″
Carousel Dentzel Original Paint, Ht. 55″
26 Piece Set Export
Augustus John Charcoal 17″ x 12″
Conrad Freitag Oil on Canvas 26″ x 36″
Federal 1820 Ht. 52″
Chippendale Cherry, Ht. 88″, Wd. 40″
George Brush Oil, 25″ x 18″
18th Century, Ht. 70″
Chippendale Maple Ht. 80″
Louis XV 19th Century Ht. 84″
Mahogany Sailors Box, Wd. 16″
Emily Sargentt Watercolor, 1 of 3
One of Several Samuel Clemens Signed Checks
Edith Kramer, 28″ x 42″
Porcelain, Ht. 11 1/2″
Burmese, Ht. 82″
Easton Pess Part of Book Collection
Miyao Bronze Ht.1O Vz”, 1 of 2
Sevres Lg. 15′
Silk, 62″x21
Jules Vegrassat, Oil on Canvas, 10″ x 18′
Mary Potter Oil on Canvas 15″ x 11″, 1 of 3
Height 16″
Gustav Stickley #814
William Mary Figured Walnut, Wd.32

Distinguished Provenance Pieces
Paul Riba 10 x 14 Estate of Mary Rockefeller
Kennedy Galleries New York Watercolor 20 x 16
Sir Gowing 9 x 12 Oil on Canvas Leicester Galleries 1948, Part of the John L. Hughes Estate
David Seidenberg Antique New York 2000 Park Avenue Apartment, Ht. 33
Gary Young Antique 2002 Park Avenue Apartment, Ht. 16
Kentshire Galleries New York 2002 Park Avenue Apartment Lg.20
Annie Swynnerton 20 x 16 Walker at Gallery 1934, Part of the John L. Hughes Estate
Forian Papp 2003 Park Avenue Apartment, Ht. 141/2
Helen Sinclair Paris 2003 Park Avenue Apartment Part of a Collection
Slover & Taylor New York City 1800, Eric Van Rooy Estate
Oushak 10 x11 David Duncan Antiques 2000 Park Avenue Estate
Part of Essex Connecticut Collection
Versailles Anique New York 2000 Park Avenue Apartment, Ht. 93
Newell Antiques New York 2000 Park Avenue Apartment, Ht. 103
Chippendale Mabel Garvan Collection from Yale University, Ht. 16
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