Schwenke Auctioneers & Appraisers
Annual Fall Fine Estates Auction
Wednesday, September 27th ~ 10:00 AM
710 Main Street South, Woodbury, CT
Our Annual Fall CT Fine Estates Auction comprises over 700 lots of select estate property from several estates and consignors, including American country and formal furniture and decorations, American folk art, English and Continental furniture and decorative arts, Asian porcelain and decorative arts, English & other sterling silver, Native American arts, jewelry, fine art, miscellaneous decorative arts, and a large group of estate oriental rugs.
The sale will include items from the estate of noted American collector C.K. Davis. Never before offered for sale, the items include several important and well-documented pieces of American furniture, as well as Mr. Davis' own personal collection notes, records and diaries which chronicle his many years of collecting under the expert guidance of the firm Israel Sack, Inc.
Other estate property includes Continental decorative arts from the estate of American actor David Niven, more than one hundred pieces of fine art from a Connecticut estate, and decorative and fine arts from over 45 other estates and consignors.
Please consult our website, www.woodburyauction.com for further information.
Inspection dates are:
Sunday, September 24th 10am - 5pm
Monday, September 25th 10am - 5pm
Tuesday, September 26th 10am - 5 pm
Wednesday, September 27th 9am to sale time
Brock Jobe Discusses “The C.K. Davis Collection – A Passion For Americana”
Brock Jobe
On Wednesday, September 20th at 6:00 pm, Schwenke Auctioneers will host another “Expert Eye” decorative arts forum program. The speaker will be Brock Jobe, noted scholar, author, instructor and research expert. Jobe will discuss recollections of C.K. Davis and his relationship with Henry Francis du Pont, founder and benefactor of Winterthur Museum, and will also review Mr. Davis’ personal collection notes, archives and memorabilia which were recently acquired by Winterthur Museum in private treaty from Schwenke Auctioneers.
Philadelphia Chippendale mahogany side chair
Over seventy-five objects from the C.K. Davis personal collection are being offered for sale for the first time in Schwenke Auctioneers’ fall public auction. C.K. Davis was president of Remington Arms Corporation and after becoming interested in American antiques in the mid-twentieth century became a dedicated patron of the Israel Sack, Inc. firm in New York City. For many years he avidly collected some of the finest examples of American furniture, many of which are now in the collection of Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Henry Francis du Pont, the founder and benefactor of Winterthur Museum, was a close friend of C.K. Davis and Davis was a member of the Board of Directors of Winterthur Museum for several years.
In 2000 Brock Jobe was appointed professor of American decorative arts in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture after a 28-year career as a museum curator and administrator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Colonial Williamsburg, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England), and Winterthur. Between 2010 and 2014, Brock co-directed the collaborative project, Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture, which united eleven institutions in a celebration of Bay State furniture-making. His newest publication, Crafting Excellence: The Furniture of Nathan Lumbard and His Circle, which he co-authored with Christie Jackson and Clark Pearce, will be available in January 2018. Brock is a recipient of the President’s Award from Old Sturbridge Village, the Award of Merit from the Antiques Dealers’ Association of America, and the Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts. He retired from his professorship in May 2015, but retains an office at Winterthur and continues to study, write, and lecture about American furniture.
The “Expert Eye” program begins at 6:00 pm at the firm’s auction gallery 710 Main Street South, Woodbury CT, and reservations are suggested. Please call 203-266-0323 for reservations and further information. Also, please visit the firm’s website www.woodburyauction.com for further information about the September 27th Annual Fall Fine Estates Auction.