Naïve portrait of a young woman, pastel on paper, unsigned. The woman is sitting with her hand on a book, wearing a blue headband, a blue dress with a bow, and a coral necklace. The pastel is framed in a beautiful frame behind glass. It is in very good condition with wear consistent with age. First half of the 19th century, New England.
Dimensions: 32” x 27½”; Viewed Area: 24” x 19½”
Item No. 240256
Price: $985.
Queen Anne tavern table, pine and maple. The table sports a single-board scrubbed pine top with breadboard ends, a single drawer, a base in early, possibly original red paint, and large button feet. It is in good condition, displaying only the expected wear from age and usage. The drawer knob is possibly an old replacement. 18th century, New England.
Provenance: Peter Eaton Antiques
Dimensions: 27¾” high x 40¾” long x 28¼” wide.
Item No. 250003
Price: $1,975.
Naïve painting of the paddle steamer, “New York” on the Hudson River, oil on slate, unsigned. The painting is in good condition with some small areas of flaked paint loss. 19th century, likely New York.
Dimensions: 11¼” x 7½”; Viewed Area: 10¼” x 6½”
Item No. 250014
Price: $1,100.
Fan-back Windsor armchair. The chair sports a beautiful color, a shaped crest rail over seven spindles, and a wide saddle seat raised on splayed legs joined by an H-form turned bulbous stretcher. Inscribed in pencil underneath: “N. Liverant, 1974, R. Byck, New Haven”. The chair is in very good condition, with an old repair to the crest rail. 18th century, probably CT.
Provenance: Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, CT.
Item No. 240289
Price: $1,200.
Sale Price: $950. (Firm)
Pilgrim Century turned armchair, oak. The chair sports a red stain, acorn finials, excellent turnings and a later rush seat. (The seat has now been stained and is a darker color than what is shown in the photos.) The chair is in very good condition with the expected wear from age and usage. Circa 1650, American.
Dimensions: 45¾” high x 23½” wide x 20” deep; 18” seat height.
Item No. 240272
Price: $4,900.
English Delftware bowl. The bowl is nicely decorated inside and out with a blue and white floral decoration. It is in very good condition for its age, with some rim chips and hairlines. 18th century.
Provenance: The estate of Judy and John Herdeg. John Herdeg was a well-known antique collector and scholar and was Chairman of the Board of the Winterthur Museum.
Dimensions: 10¼” diameter x 4½” high.
Item No. 250005
Price: $775.
Pilgrim century Carver armchair, oak. The armchair sports a natural surface, likely refinished, a good rush seat, nice turnings on the arms and base, and a carved spindle back with complex turnings. It is in very good condition, considering its age, with a slight front-to-back wobble and a minor repair to the proper left finial. 17th century, American.
Provenance: From the collection of a very well-known antiquarian. Name provided to purchaser.
Dimensions: 46¼” high x 24½” wide x 20” deep; 18” seat height.
Item No. 240271
Price: $3,700.
English Delft polychrome tankard, unsigned. This 9½” tankard sports a four-color design of stylized flowers and urns, a hinged pewter cover having a shell-form thumb tab and a green dot-dash design on the handle. The tankard is in very good condition, with a small, hard-to-see hairline radiating up from the bottom, the expected wear to the rim below the cover and flakes to the base rim glaze. 18th century.
Item No. 240281
Price: $875.
Comb-back Windsor rocker, Stephen Tracy. The chair sports an old refinish with traces of old paint and a nicely shaped chestnut seat. It is signed underneath, “S. Tracy”. Stephen Tracy was a nephew of Ebenezer Tracy, the prolific Connecticut chairmaker. The chair is in good condition, with an old repair to the center rail and some minor inactive worm damage under the seat. Circa 1800-1820, CT or NH.
Provenance: Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques, Colchester, CT.
Dimensions: 40¾” high; 15” seat height.
Item No. 240287
Price: $975.
Sale Price: $575. (Firm)
A hard-to-find matched set of seven 9-spindle bow-back Windsor chairs. The chairs sport a 19th century red paint over the original red, bold bulbous turnings and well-formed saddle seats. They are tight, in good condition and ready for everyday use, with well-worn paint and butterfly repairs underneath two seats. 18th century, New York.
Provenance: Wayne Pratt, Woodbury, CT.
Dimensions: 36” high; 17½” seat height.
Item No. 240297
Price: $6,900.
