IMPORTANT AMERICANA INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JOAN OESTREICH KEND
Auction 20 & 21 January
In keeping with the dedicated sales during Americana Week, the various-owner auction of Important Americana is highlighted by additional property emerging from distinguished private collections. The collection of Joyce Volk, noted scholar and author in the field of American decorative arts and longtime curator of the Warner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, offers early painted provincial New England furniture from her period 18th-century home. Early Boston furniture from the collection of Amos Staehle features a fabulous bonnet-top highboy, as well as a card table and chairs, while the New York collection of Bruce Westcott is highlighted by one of the greatest groups of Paktong candlesticks ever to appear at auction.

The Colonial silver highlights include a large, rare silver brandywine bowl by Gerrit Onkelbag of New York, circa 1700 which descended within the Boudinot-Atterbury family and was reportedly used by George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Marquis de Lafayette, and an early silver tankard by Koenraet Ten Eyck of Albany, NY, circa 1710 that exemplifies the distinctive New York decorative elements of the time. Also of great importance is a silver and mixed metal three-handled cup by Tiffany & Co. that was presented to a workman, Frederick Duesberg, upon his retirement in 1901. It includes the names of fifty of his colleagues and serves as a rare historical document into those employees working at the turn of the century.

The collection of Joane Oestreich Kend features a highly-personal selection of Americana that Mrs. Kend herself acquired for her estate in Millbrook, New York. The group is a celebration of form and function, highlighted by vivid Folk portraiture and dramatic, sculptural weathervanes. The January sale will offer a Gilt and Painted Molded Copper Goddess of Liberty with Flag Weathervane, crafted in New York circa 1880 by J.W. Fiske Ironworks, which stands an impressive three feet tall (estimate $100/150,000).

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF E. NEWBOLD AND MARGARET DU PONT SMITH
Auction 21 January
The Smiths’ collection focuses primarily on outstanding examples of 18th-century Pennsylvania fine and decorative arts. The collection includes: a very scarce example of Penn’s Treaty by the consummate folk artist Edward Hicks (estimate $800,000/1.2 million) as well as an important miniature William and Mary high chest of drawers (estimate $80/120,000). The brilliance of early Philadelphia craftsmen is on full display with the outstanding Queen Anne carved and figured walnut open armchair (estimate $250/350,000), the wonderful tall case clock with works by the celebrated clockmaker Peter Stretch (1670-1746) and its case by one of Philadelphia’s earliest cabinetmakers John Head (w. 1717-1754) (estimate $150/300,000), and the Queen Anne carved and figured maple open armchair attributed to the workshop of Solomon Fussell (active ca. 1726–50) (estimate $60/120,000).

IMPORTANT AMERICAN FOLK ART FROM THE RALPH AND SUSANNE KATZ COLLECTION
Auction 21 January
The Ralph and Susanne Katz folk art collection comprises outstanding examples of 19th-century American portrait and landscape. The offering includes seven paintings by the celebrated marine and landscape artist Thomas Chambers (1808-1869), five paintings by Vermont artist James Hope (1818 – 1892), and five paintings by Ammi Phillips (1788-1865). The collection is led by John Rasmussen’s bird’s-eye perspective painting, View of the Berks County Alms House (estimate $80/120,000), which is both an extraordinary art object and a historical artifact.