2026 Major Fall Chinese, Shaker and Americana Auction

American Primitive School, Late 18th Century/Early 19th Century
Portrait of a Woman Holding a Book
Oil on canvas, depicting a half-length portrait of a woman wearing a white bonnet and gray dress, adorned in pendant earrings and a cameo ring, holding a small red-bound book
Housed in a molded giltwood frame with beaded inner edge and parcel gilt finish
30″ x 24″ canvas

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Attributed to James Worsdale (British, c. 1692–1767)
Portrait of William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington (c. 1683–1756)
Oil on canvas, three-quarter-length portrait depicting William Stanhope in a powdered wig and burgundy velvet coat with gilt embroidery.
Inscribed upper left “William Earl of Harrington.”
36″ x 28″ canvas, 45″ x 36″ frame
Provenance: From the Collection of Joseph Flack of Burlington, CT

Estimate: $800 - $1200

American School (18th/19th Century)
Folk Portrait of a Young Woman, circa 1800
Oil on canvas, primitive portrait depicting a young woman seated against a dark background holding a letter, dressed in a burgundy red empire silhouette gown featuring white ruffled collar and tall pleated bonnet
24″ x 19″ canvas, 28″ x 24″ frame

Estimate: $300 - $500

American School (19th Century)
Folk Portrait of a Young Girl, circa 1840
Oil on canvas laid to later board, full-length portrait of a young girl dressed in red, holding a basket of flowers, wearing pendant necklace and bracelet, standing beside an open landscape view
48″ x 38″ sight

Estimate: $1500 - $2500

Group of Seven American and English Silhouette Portraits
to include seven cut and painted silhouette portraits of gentlemen, ladies and children, variously framed, one bearing embossed Peale’s Museum stamp and one inscribed Spencer, including single, double and figural compositions
largest frame 11″ x 9″

Estimate: $300 - $500

Framed Embroidered Panel on Handmade Linen
early 19th century
4 1/2″ x 76″

Estimate: $250 - $450

Three Needleworks
to include family register for Tileston family from late 18th century to the early 19th century
16″ x 19 1/2″, 15 1/2″ x 21″, 16 1/2″ x 18″

Estimate: $300 - $500

American School, Mid-19th Century
Folk Art Country Estate Landscape, circa 1855-1865
Oil on canvas depicting a country estate having a large white residence set among trees and pasture with cows and sheep
Verso stenciled on canvas: FROM / M.J. WHIPPLE’S / ARTISTS SUPPLIES / 35 CORNHILL / BOSTON
12″ x 18″ canvas

Estimate: $100 - $200

Continental School, 19th Century
Three-Masted Sailing Ship at Sea
Watercolor and pencil on paper depicting a three-masted sailing ship under full sail
Signed lower right, possibly C. R. Trylie or Wylie
7 1/2″ x 11 1/2″ sight, 13″ x 18″ frame
Provenance: From a Briarcliff Manor Estate

Estimate: $100 - $300

Thomas Chambers (American, 1808-1869)
“View of Nahant”
Oil on canvas depicting a coastal view of Nahant, Massachusetts, featuring waves breaking along a rocky shoreline, figures on the beach and sailing vessels in the distance
22″ x 30″ canvas, 26″ x 34″ frame
Provenance: Sotheby’s, New York, Important Americana, Sale 5551, January 28-30, 1987, lot 1066, sold for $18,700 including buyer’s premium.

Note: A related work from Chambers’ Nahant series, View of Nahant (Sunset), was offered in the same Sotheby’s Important Americana sale in 1987 and later sold at Christie’s, New York, January 20, 2022, lot 149, for $437,500, establishing a world auction record for the artist. Only five paintings from Chambers’ Nahant series are known.

Estimate: $10000 - $20000

Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830-1902)
“The Last of the Buffalo,” 1891
Photogravure on paper after Bierstadt’s 1888 painting, depicting a Native American hunter on horseback spearing a buffalo, surrounded by additional hunters and buffalo against an expansive Western landscape and distant snow capped mountains
Signed lower right in pencil Albert Bierstadt
Published by Albert Bierstadt, probably printed by Goupil & Co., Paris
16″ x 27 1/4″ sight, 31 1/2″ x 41 3/4″ frame
Provenance: Property from the Collection of Thomas D. Mottola sold to Benefit the Museum of Contemporary ArtCT;
Valley Fine Art, Aspen, Colorado.

Estimate: $5000 - $10000

Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942)
“Tree Planting Group,” 1937
Lithograph on paper depicting a group of children planting a tree for Arbor Day beside a rural Iowa schoolhouse
Edition of 250, published by Associated American Artists, New York.
Signed in pencil and dated lower right Grant Wood
8 1/2″ x 10 7/8″ plate

Estimate: $800 - $1200

Group of American Painted Tin and Toleware Articles
to include floral decorated tin canisters, covered round wooden box, painted trays, candle mold, pierced tin shaker, small pitcher and other assorted painted tin and toleware articles
tallest height 11 inches

Estimate: $100 - $300

13 Piece Group of Painted Toleware
to include coffee pots, covered boxes, trays , etcetera
tallest 9 1/2 inches

Estimate: $200 - $500

Federal Mahogany Work Table with Lift Top
opening to reveal adjustable felt covered writing surface, over two drawers set on carved pedestal on four paw feet
height 29 inches, top 18 1/2″ x 23″

Estimate: $300 - $500

Federal Mahogany Game Table
having pivoting top on carved pedestal and carved paw feet
height 29 3/4 inches, top 17 1/4″ x 34 3/4″

Estimate: $200 - $400

Empire Mahogany Console Table
having a rectangular white marble top over a frieze inlaid with a central oval rosette panel flanked by string-inlaid borders and corner panels centered by classical medallions, fitted with a mirrored back panel, supported by cylindrical columns with carved capitals and bases, the legs joined by a concave stretcher, early 19th century
height 36 1/2 inches and 37 inches, length 42 inches, depth 19 inches

Estimate: $800 - $1200

Federal Mahogany Work Table
having a rectangular top with rounded drop leaves above a fitted case with two drawers, the upper drawer opening to a compartmented interior, each drawer fitted with turned brass pulls and locks, the case raised on four turned and reeded legs terminating in turned feet, circa 1830, height 28 inches, top 19″ x 19″

Estimate: $200 - $400

Chippendale Mahogany Roundabout Chair
having shell carved hand rests with openwork splats, set on four cabriole legs with carved knees on ball and claw feet, English or Southern, one back leg repaired
height 32 3/4 inches, width 33 1/4 inches, depth 27 inches, seat height 18 inches
Provenance: From the Robert E Gilroy Estate of Hampton, Connecticut

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Federal Mahogany Work Table
having a rectangular top with rounded front corners over three drawers with brass ring pulls and escutcheons, raised on a carved pedestal support having four carved paw feet, New York circa 1820
height 28 inches, width 21 inches,

Estimate: $300 - $500

Federal Mahogany Game Table
having pivoting top with banded inlaid top, over stenciled frieze on acanthus carved column, on circular stenciled base, set on four carved paw feet
probably New York, c. 1830
height 29 1/2 inches, top 18 1/2″ x 36 1/2″

Estimate: $500 - $1000

French Empire Mahogany Bureau Plat
having a rectangular solid top over a carved frieze fitted with two short drawers, each mounted with cast brass lion head pulls retaining ring handles and flanked by foliate carved corner blocks, the case supported on monumental turned and carved columnar legs with leaf and gadrooned carving, with gilt collars at the capitals, joined by a shaped central stretcher and terminating in deeply carved paw feet
height 31 inches, top 36″ x 60″

Estimate: $1000 - $1500

Federal Mahogany Tester Bed
having a shaped headboard with scrolled crest and central shell carving, with tall turned and reeded posts ending in acorn-form finials, raised on turned legs, possibly made up of old elements
height 89 inches, width 58 inches

Estimate: $300 - $500

Federal Giltwood Convex Wall Mirror
having circular convex mirror plate set within a deep molded gilt frame, having ebonized reeded inner slip, surmounted by a carved spread-wing eagle perched on a rocky crest, issuing foliate and fruiting carving below the glass, early 19th century
height 34 inches, width 20 inches

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Federal Mahogany Mirror having Gilt Decoration
gilt urn finial, scroll, and liner, top loose, circa 1800
height 43 1/2 inches, width 20 1/2 inches
Provenance: From the Enfield Historical Society, 2025 Deaccession

Estimate: $300 - $500