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Upcoming Fine Estates Auction

Home Decor, Fine Art, Fashion & Couture

Tuesday, September 16th, 1:00pm EST

Our September 16th Fine Estates Auction comprises over 480 lots of fresh estate property from estates and collectors from Fairfield, Hartford, and Litchfield Counties in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, and features Part Two - Fashion and Couture comprising over 180 lots from the Estate of Bobbie Hainline Howrey.

The first section of the sale includes 300 lots of diverse and eclectic antique, vintage, contemporary and MCM decorative arts, including over 70 fine artworks from a single collector in Morris County, New Jersey. Over 100 lots of English furniture and decorations from a Greenwich CT estate; American country items from a collector in Boston MA; several lots of fine English formal furniture and Asian furniture from a collector in Fairfield County CT; two Louis Vuitton steamer trunks from a Stonington CT collector; and several fine MCM items from a Newtown CT estate.

The couture items from the Estate of Bobbie Hainline Howrey comprising the second section of the sale offer a wide range of fashions including purses and handbags, scarves, ladies' formal dress and sport fashions, shoes, hats, belts, accessories and other items with Hermes, Gucci, Chanel, Ferragamo, Ralph Lauren and other fine designer pieces among the offerings.


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The Phelps-Hathaway Connecticut Queen Anne
Cherrywood Bonnet Top Highboy
Suffield-Windsor Area, circa 1750-65
87" high, 39" wide, 19" deep.
On Loan and Exhibited Since 1988
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford CT
Property from a Pennsylvania Collector



Pair Framed Continental W/C, Allegorical Figures
Frame size: 14" high, 11 3/4" wide.
Property from a Washington CT Collection

Pair Chinese Polychrome Pottery Foo Dogs
18" high, 8" wide, 13" deep.
Property from a Washington CT Collection



John Phillip Osborne (Am. b 1951)
Oil on Canvas "Irish Street"
Frame size: 22 1/4" high, 18 1/4" wide.
Property from a Litchfield CT Collection



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Schwenke Auctioneers is located in historic Woodbury, Connecticut, nationally known in the antiques community as "The Antiques Capital of Connecticut" and situated at the beginning of the "Connecticut Antiques Trail". Woodbury is convenient to all major east coast cities, is home to several dozen fine antique shops, and boasts several first class restaurants, inns and spas, all nestled in the scenic general area called the "Litchfield Hills".

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