2026 Major Spring Americana & Chinese Auction Featuring Items From the Rockefeller Estate

English Sterling Silver Coffee Pot
of baluster form with fluted lower body, scroll spout, and carved wood handle, the domed lid with finial and gadrooned borders, raised on a circular foot, bearing partial maker’s mark “___F” and date letter “d.” Total weight 29.4 troy ounces
11 inches high.
Provenance: A collection from Southbury, Connecticut

Estimate: $1500 - $1800

Watson Company Sterling Silver Coffee Pot
“Exemplar circa 1730″ pattern, of baluster form with domed lid and wooden finial, scroll handle with ivory insulators, and curved spout, monogrammed to body and raised on a circular foot. Total weight 15.2 troy ounces
10 inches high.
Provenance: A collection from Southbury, Connecticut

Estimate: $600 - $900

Crichton Brothers Sterling Silver Teapot and Stand
with burner
height 11″
weight 33.5 troy ounces

Estimate: $1500 - $2000

Set of Four George III Sterling Silver Candlesticks
hallmarked “J.H” with date letter “K” for 1765, each with fluted and baluster-form stems raised on shaped scalloped bases with shell and rocaille decoration, engraved with an ancestral crest depicting a rampant lion within a field of stars.
Total weight 71.1 troy ounces
9 inches high.
Provenance: A collection from Southbury, Connecticut

Estimate: $3000 - $5000

Henry Wilkinson & Co. Sterling Silver and Cut Glass Inkstand
Victorian sterling silver inkstand with shaped tray having pierced foliate border and scroll feet, fitted with two cut glass inkwells with sterling mounts and a removable central candlestick, all bearing Sheffield hallmarks for Henry Wilkinson & Co., dated 1854. Total weighable weight 10.0 troy ounces
5 1/2 inches high x 9 inches long.
Provenance: A collection from Southbury, Connecticut

Estimate: $400 - $600

121 Piece Frank M. Whiting Co. “Victoria-Florence” Sterling Silver Flatware Set
to include 12 dinner forks, 12 lunch forks, 12 salad / dessert forks, 12 dinner knives, 12 lunch knives, 12 butter spreaders, 24 teaspoons, 12 soup spoons, 3 serving forks, 3 serving spoons, 2 sugar spoons, 1 ladle, 1 carving fork, 1 carving knife, 1 pie server, one sponge cake cutter
113.7 troy ounces

Estimate: $7000 - $8500

Brass Bound Amboyna Lap Desk, England
now mounted as an end table on a painted wood base, having one end drawer and two brass end handles, interior is camphor wood 19th century
height 21 inches, top 10 1/2″ x 19 1/2″
Provenance: Property of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III, from the Collection of Sandra Ferry Rockefeller
Kentshire, original purchase price $3,600 (no receipt available)
Condition: small crack in top

Estimate: $300 - $500

George III Carved and Veneered Mahogany Partner’s Writing Table
having black tooled leather top and two drawers on either side, England circa 1800
height 30 1/2 inches, width 48 inches, depth 36 inches

Estimate: $4000 - $8000

Federal Mahogany Bowfront Chest
four-drawer chest with original hardware.
circa 1800. Height 38 inches, top 23″ x 41 1/2″.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Continental Daybed Opening to Double
having finials and gilt decoration, pull out front, all set on square tapered legs, circa 1800
height 43 inches, length 71 1/2 inches, depth 24 inches, double width 68 inches depth 33 inches

Estimate: $400 - $800

Federal Mahogany Stand
with one drawer having concave front all set on turned legs, circa 1820
height 32 inches, top 16″ x 25″
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment

Estimate: $250 - $450

Tiger Maple and Maple Chest on Frame
18th Century
In one piece, the molded cornice above six graduated long drawers fitted with original brass batwing pulls, the lower frame with shaped apron and cabriole legs ending in pad feet. Constructed in tiger maple and maple with attractive figuring.
height 63 1/2 inches, case width 36 inches, top 17 1/2″ x 38 1/2″
Condition: Very good overall; age-expected wear, minor surface marks and imperfections; base restored.

Estimate: $500 - $800

American Chippendale Maple and Tiger Maple Inlaid Chest of Drawers
rectangular top above a series of four long graduated drawers on a plain apron and bracket feet, 18th to 19th Century
height 39 inches, depth 42 1/2 inches, width 20 1/2 inches
Provenance: Property of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III, from the Collection of Sandra Ferry Rockefeller
Condition: Overall poor condition, stains to top, age cracks, poorly refinished

Estimate: $200 - $400

American Federal Tiger Maple One-Drawer Stand
square top above a single drawer, the figured tiger maple case raised on slender turned legs, fitted with round pulls, warm honey-brown finish with visible figuring throughout.
American, early 19th century
height 29 inches, top 16 1/2″ x 19″

Estimate: $250 - $450

French Napoleon III Ebonized and Inlaid Center Table
rectangular shaped-top table with elaborate marquetry of scrolling foliate designs and central urn, within an ebonized ground, with gilt metal mounts and edge molding, inlaid throughout including the ends, fitted with a drawer to one side, raised on turned legs joined by a shaped stretcher with central gilt bronze urn finial.
France, 19th century. Height 29 1/2 inches, top 33 1/2″ x 58″.

Estimate: $1500 - $2500

Louis XV Provincial Walnut Commode
with a molded top above two short drawers and a central small drawer over two long drawers, all with shaped panels and finely cast bronze handles depicting opposing hunting dogs, centered by foliate escutcheons, the sides with raised panels, and a shaped apron raised on short curved legs, retains rich patina and original hardware, mid-18th century
height 33 1/2 inches, width 44 inches, depth 23 inches

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Pair of American Federal Mahogany Armchairs
each with a curved crest rail and scrolling arms, upholstered back and seat with loose cushions, raised on turned legs ending in brass casters, warm mahogany finish. Reputedly formerly used in the Charleston, South Carolina City Council chambers and purchased by Mayor John Wagener circa 1870; Wagener, at the outset of the Civil War, commanded the First Artillery Regiment (largely composed of German immigrants) and was ordered to defend Port Royal Harbor, where his forces constructed Fort Walker on Hilton Head Island and held it until 1861; following the war he was commissioned brigadier general by Governor James Orr, and Fort Wagner on Morris Island was named in his honor; in 1871 he was elected mayor of Charleston and resided at the corner of St. Philip Street and McBride’s Lane.
American, early 19th century. Height 32 1/2 inches, width 22 inches, depth 23 inches, seat height 18 inches

Estimate: $800 - $1200

Federal Cherry Candle Stand
molded square top on slender turned shaft set on tripod base, circa 1800

Estimate: $200 - $400

George Mears (British 1865-1910)
“HMS Ophir and Albeta”, 1901
Oil on canvas depicting the HMS Ophir underway in moderate seas, flying British ensigns, accompanied by a tender vessel at right with additional ships faintly visible on the horizon under a soft, overcast sky
20″ x 32″ canvas

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

George Mears (British 1865-1910)
“Yawl Entering Ramsgate”, 1895
Oil on canvas depicting a yawl under sail navigating choppy seas approaching the Ramsgate harbor breakwater with lighthouse and figures gathered along the pier
Signed and dated lower right G.Mears ’95
20″ x 30″ canvas

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

American School (19th Century)
Mississippi River Steamboat “Redwing,” circa 1870
Oil on canvas depicting a river landscape with sidewheel steamboat and sailboat before mountainous terrain, housed in period frame
Signed “R.S.” lower left, the vessel inscribed “1870 Redwing”
13″ x 16 1/4″ canvas, 21″ x 24″ frame
Provenance: Trisdonn Gallery, Nyack, New York, 12/17/1983 ($2,160) copy of receipt available

Estimate: $300 - $500

Hudson River School (American 19th Century)
Oil on canvas depicting a river landscape with single dock and double sidewheel Fulton steamboat at dock before mountainous terrain, with figures in a rowboat and sailboat beyond, rendered in warm atmospheric light
24″ x 32″ canvas
Provenance: Thomaston Place Auction, Maine, 8/25/2013, Lot 1054 ($1,380) copy of receipt available

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Joseph Sydney Willis Hodges (British 1829–1900)
Portrait of a Lady with Fan, 1870
Oil on canvas, depicting a seated young woman wearing a light gown with black lace trim and a floral adornment in her hair, holding a painted folding fan, set before a garden terrace with wrought iron railing.
Signed and dated lower right Sydney Hodges 1870
Verso canvas stamp “Robson & Sons, Manufacturers of Prepared Canvas & Colourmen, 96 Long Acre, London.” Frame retaining partial label “Lawrence’s Stores Ltd., West Surrey Depository.”
Canvas 30″ x 25″, frame 39″ x 34 1/2″

Estimate: $500 - $1000

English School (18th Century)
Portrait of a Young Lady with Fruit
Oil on canvas depicting a young woman in a pink satin gown with white chemise and green wrap, her hair adorned with flowers, seated beside a table with a basket of fruit, set before an interior background with architectural column.
Indistinctly inscribed lower right, possibly “S. Summers pinx.”
canvas 30″ x 24″, frame 35″ x 30″

Estimate: $300 - $500

Primitive Watercolor and Graphite
Young girl with flowers and armchair
sight size 8 1/2″ x 11 1/4″, frame size 13 1/2″ x 16″

Estimate: $200 - $300