Fairfield Auction presents an
IMPORTANT ESTATES AUCTION
Sunday, September 18th

at our gallery
707 Main Street (route 25), Monroe, Connecticut

featuring the original contents of The Vaillant Estate of Washington, Connecticut,
home of artist Louis David Vaillant (1875-1944)
the 4600 square foot Rossiter designed Italianate villa is situated on a magnificent 31 acre site
with virtually all original furnishings and decorations, a true "time capsule".



Masterpiece Discovered In Local Home
lot 108, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
hammer price $160,000

HIGHLIGHTED RESULTS LOTS 1-150



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Lot 1
French Cameo Glass Vase
La Verre Francais
7" high, 9" diameter
early 20th century

estimate 400/600

SOLD $650

Lot 5
French Travel Poster
Francis Delamare
Repos Ste. Elisabeth
34"x25" lithograph, framed
1920

estimate 500/750

SOLD $300

Lot 7
Enameled Silver Dresser Box

with dancing couple, heart motif ground
5" x 3 1/4" x 1 1/2"
marked .925 Germany
early 20th century

estimate 500/750

SOLD $550

Lot 10
Tiffany Studios "Zodiac" Desk Set

blotter ends, pen tray, magnifying glass, small tray and inkwell
patina worn off

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $600

Lot 13
Vega Arch Top Acoustic Guitar

serial #376XX
with case
circa 1930's

estimate 400/600

SOLD $375

Lot 14
Astronaut Autographs
Gemini, America's Historic Walk In Space
published by UPI, 1965
signed by Edward H. White and James A. McDivitt (both in ball point, above picture)

estimate 300/500

SOLD $275

Lot 15
Hans Wegner "Valet" Chair
manufactured by Johannes Hansen, Copenhagen Denmark
branded under seat
37" high

estimate 3000/5000

SOLD $6,500

Lot 16
Eames Lounge and Ottoman

model 670
produced by Herman MIller
with birch laminated shell
late 20th century

estimate 1200/1800

SOLD $2200

Lot 17
Italian Art Glass Vase

Venini
14 1/2" high
signed on bottom

estimate 500/750

SOLD $425

Lot 18
Patek Phillipe 18k Men's Gold Wrist Watch

with 14k bracelet
mid-20th century

estimate 5000/7500

SOLD $5000

Lot 19
14k Gold Sunburst Brooch

with diamonds, sapphires and tourquoise
1 1/2" diameter
23 grams

estimate 500/750

SOLD $550

Lot 20
Omega 14k White Gold and Diamond Ladies Wrist Watch

5 3/4" bracelet
19 grams

estimate 600/900

SOLD $550

Lot 21
1907 "Liberty" Twenty Dollar Gold Piece

mounted as a pendant with gold and sapphire bezel
46 grams

estimate 1500/2000

SOLD $2000

Lot 22
14k Gold Necklace

14 1/2" long
38 grams

estimate 600/900

SOLD $1000

Lot 23
14k Gold Link Bracelet

6 3/4" long
83 grams

estimate 1500/2000

SOLD $2600

Lot 26
Tiffany Studios Desk Lamp

with Tiffany Favrile Damascene Shade
shade 7" diameter
overall 18" high

estimate 4000/6000

SOLD $7000

Lot 29
attributed to Gustav Stickley

oak library table with keyed through tenons, model 433
48"x30"x29"
old refinish

estimate 500/750

SOLD $700

Lot 30
Pairpoint Reverse Painted Seagull Lamp

19 3/4" diameter artist signed shade with reverse painted glass base
25 1/2" high overall
early 20th century

estimate 3000/5000

SOLD $2400

Lot 31
Pair of Pairpoint Puffy Lamps

with nearly matching silverplated bases
9" diameter, 14" high
early 20th century

estimate 2000/3000

SOLD $2800

Lot 33
Vienna Bronze Figure of an Arab Carpet Merchant
3 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 1 7/8"
unmarked, circa 1910

estimate 600/900

SOLD $375

Lot 34
Mr. Vanderbilt's House & Collection

19"x13"
5 volumes
published by Geo. Barrie

estimate 500/750

SOLD $600

Lot 35
1924 St. Gaudens Twenty Dollar Gold Piece

estimate 1400/1800

SOLD $1700

Lot 38
Andy Warhol

Paper Bag
19 1/2" x 17" silkscreen
published by The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1966
framed

estimate 2000/3000

SOLD $1400

Lot 39
Roy Lichtenstein
pencil signed lithograph
23" x 31" on paper, laid down
numbered 256/300
circa 1960's

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $1900

Lot 41
Pair of Large Modern Italian Art Glass Vases

clear glass with green stripes
each 24" high
third quarter 20th century

estimate 400/600

SOLD $250

Lot 42
Steinway Model "S" Grand Piano

with walnut case
serial number 363XXX
circa 1947

estimate 6000/9000

SOLD $9500

Lot 45
Pairpoint Reverse Painted Floral Lamp

21" diameter
early 20th century

estimate 1200/1800

SOLD $1300

Lot 46
Pairpoint Reverse Painted Scenic Lamp

depicting cottages in a landscape
15 " diameter
early 20th century

estimate 1200/1800

SOLD $1900

Lot 48
Tiffany Bronze Student Lamp Base
model 6829
patina well worn
19 1/2" high

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $1300

Lot 49
Barbara Morgan

Charles Weidman, 1938
16 3/4" x 12 3/4"
printed 1980

estimate 1000/1500

SOLD $550

Lot 50
Barbara Morgan

Hearst Over The People, 1939
13" x 16 1/2"
printed 1982

estimate 1000/1500

SOLD $500

Lot 51
Large Art Nouveau Sterling Vase

Theodore B. Starr, New York
16 1/4" high
39.7 troy ounces
circa 1900

estimate 2500/3500

SOLD $5500

Lot 52
Gorham Japanesque Sterling Bowl

7 1/4" diameter
11.4 troy ounces
circa 1890

estimate 400/600

SOLD $700

Lot 53
Egyptian Revival Silver Dresser Box

with painted portrait of Cleopatra
probably French
3 1/2" x 3 1/2" x 1 3/8"
8.2 troy ounces
circa 1910

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $550

Lot 55
Fine Regency Sterling Serving Tray

J.E. Terry & Company, London, 1825

25 1/2" diameter, 2 1/8" high
213 troy ounces

estimate 5000/7500

SOLD $9500


Lot 56
Samuel Kirk & Son Sterling Repousse Centerpiece

13 1/4" long, 5" high
29.3 troy ounces
monogrammed

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $2000

Lot 57
Samuel Kirk & Son Sterling Repousse Tea Set

consisting of hot water server, coffee pot, tea pot, sugar, creamer and waste bowl
186 troy ounces

estimate 5000/7500

SOLD $8000

Lot 58
Tiffany Japanese Pattern Sterling Sugar and Creamer

5 1/2" high
12.9 troy ounces

estimate 300/500

SOLD $1400

Lot 59
Theodore B. Starr Sterling Tea Set

consisting of hot water server, coffee pot, tea pot, sugar and creamer
179 troy ounces

estimate 4000/6000

SOLD $6000

Lot 60
18k Gold Fu Dog Brooch

with diamonds and cabachon emeralds
53 grams

estimate 1200/1800

SOLD $2400

Lot 61
Chinese Jade Pendant

with diamonds
3 5/8" long, 2 1/2" across

estimate 500/750

SOLD $800

Lot 62
Fine Continental Enameled Silver Cigarette Case

marked "W" and ".935", otherwise marks are indistinct
3 1/8" x 2 7/8"
monogramed verso

estimate 600/900

SOLD $450

Lot 63
Hamilton 14k White Gold Open Face Pocket Watch

together with a silverplated pocket knife, all with original fitted box
inscribed, 1928

estimate 600/900

SOLD $650

Lot 65
18k Gold Pocket Watch with Stop Watch Function

Samuel Hammond, New York
circa 1860

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $2400

Lot 66
18k Gold and Platinum Floral Brooch

with diamonds and rubies
4" long
44 grams gross

estimate 2000/3000

SOLD $2400

Lot 67
18k Starburst Brooch

with rubys and diamonds
center stone approx. .75 ct
signed G. Weil
3 1/2" long
70 grams

estimate 1800/2400

SOLD $3100

Lot 68
14k Gold and Onyx Necklace

with diamond
20" chain, 1 7/8" pendant

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $1100

Lot 69
14k Gold Enameled Carp Brooch

with diamond eyes
2 5/8" long
25 grams

estimate 500/750

SOLD $600

Lot 70
Antique 14k Gold Diamond and Amethyst Pendant

with later chain
2" long
23 grams (gross)

estimate 300/500

SOLD $750

Lot 71
14k Gold Concord Ladies Wrist Watch

quartz movement
5 7/8" bracelet
49 grams

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $1200

Lot 75
14k Gold F.B.I. Service Ring

from the family of agent Leon Adams Francisco, inscribed with his name on back, circa 1955
26 grams

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $1000

Francisco graduated from Harvard in 1933, and later from Fordham Law School. He served in the F.B.I. for twenty years.

Lot 76
Locomotive Engine For Passengers

Lowell Machine Shop, 1852
21 1/2" x 33 1/2 lithograph
period frame

estimate 1500/2500

passed

Lot 77
Federal Cherry Tall Chest

with graduated drawers
39"x50"x18"
circa 1800

estimate 1000/1500

SOLD $700

Lot 78
Sheraton Mahogany Two-Part Dining Table

52"x50"x29 1/2"
with two leaves
circa 1820

estimate 1000/1500

SOLD $1300

Lot 80
Country Stepback Cupboard

scraped to an old blue/gray paint
48"x79"x19"
19th century

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $400

Lot 81
Nathan Margolis Queen Anne Slant Front Desk

fine untouched original condition
with early Margolis hand written label
dated 1917

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $650

Lot 82
Seaman's Painted Chest

stamped on inside edge "S. Peasley"
36"x17"x16"
19th century

estimate 400/600

SOLD $175

Lot 83
Shaped-Top Cherry Candlestand

27 3/8" x 18" x 18"
circa 1830

estimate 300/500

SOLD $225

Lot 84
Country Sheraton Work Table

in old red with scrubbed top
and breadboard top
top 35"x25", 26" high
circa 1840

estimate 600/900

SOLD $375

Lot 85
Queen Anne Maple Highboy

Massachusetts
with fluted corners
top and bottom by association
18th century

estimate 2000/3000

SOLD $1300

Lot 86
Victorian Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth

with polychrome
7 1/2" high

late 19th century

estimate 1200/1800

SOLD $1200

Lot 87
Civil War Scrimshaw Whale Tooth Miniature Powder Horn

depicting the "ACHUSETT" (sic)
with sailor's initials, "R.G."
4 1/2" long

estimate 400/600

SOLD $600

USS Wachusett (1861) – the first U.S. Navy ship to be so named – was a large (1,032-ton) steam sloop-of-war that served the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat and used by the Navy as part of the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.

Lot 91
Paint Decorated Pine Blanket Chest

38" x 17" x 35"
19th century

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $500

Lot 92
Regency Giltwood Convex Mirror

surrmounted with a hippocampus
47" high
circa 1810

estimate 2500/4500

SOLD $2800

Lot 93
New York Classical Sewing Table

with stenciled decoration
31 3/8" high, 21" wide, 18" deep
circa 1830

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $800

Lot 95
Federal Mahogany Chest
with crossbanded drawers
36"x16"x37" wide
circa 1810

estimate 500/750

SOLD $800

Lot 96
American School Portrait of a Child in Blue Dress
attributed to Sarah Peale (1800-1885)
29" x 24" oval oil on canvas
circa 1840

estimate 6000/8000

SOLD $4600

Lot 98
Sheffield Silverplate Samovar

with eagle finials
for the American market
19th century

estimate 500/750

SOLD $300

Lot 99
Classical Mahogany Sideboard

with bowed doors and acanthus carved columns
66" x 57" x 24"
19th century

estimate 1000/1500

SOLD $700

Lot 100
Victorian Cherry Bedroom Set

probably Paine Furniture, Boston
consisting of dresser, vanity, side table, bed and two chairs
(headboard of bed has been cut, but all parts are present)

estimate 1200/1800

SOLD $550

Lot 101
Jan Sluijters
(1881-1957)
Flowers in a Delft Vase
39 1/2" x 31 3/4" oil on canvas
retaining the original frame
consigned by family of original owner

estimate 60,000/90,000

SOLD $50,000

Lot 103
Elie Anatole Pavil
Montmartre Basilica

10 1/2" x 8 1/2" oil on panel
signed lower right

estimate 1000/1500

SOLD $650

Lot 104
Carl Adolph Richter

A Victorian Salon
15"x 20" oil on canvas
signed lower right

estimate 1000/1500

SOLD $3000

Lot 105
Edmund Rode
Woman With Cat
19" x 12" oil on canvas
signed upper right

estimate 1500/2500

SOLD $950

Lot 106
Miyoko Ito
Arched Bridge
11" x 15 1/2" watercolor
signed lower right, dated 1943

estimate 500/750

SOLD $300

Lot 107
Carl Jutz

Ducks At Castle Pond
12 1/2" x 18 3/4" oil on canvas
signed lower left
retaining only frame liner

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $8000

Lot 108
Italian Old Master

Madonna and Child
17 1/2" x 13 1/2" oil on canvas
16th century

Please email for high resolution images.

estimate 5000/7500

SOLD $160,000

Lot 109
Italian Old Master Drawing

Picnic With Animals Among Ruins
10 1/2" x 16 1/2"
signed indistinctly lower right

estimate 400/600

SOLD $600

Lot 110
John Henry Dolph

Playing Cat And Mouse
14" x 22" oil on board
signed lower left

estimate 2000/3000

SOLD $4000

Lot 111
Jean De Botton

Le Compotien D'Onyx Noir
16"x20" oil on canvas
signed lower left
dated 1970

estimate 500/750

SOLD $1200

Lot 112
Gilbert Gaul

Boys On The River
21" x 30" oil on canvas
signed lower right

estimate 4000/6000

SOLD $2800


Lot 113
Nicholas Briganti
Haying Time
24" x 36" oil on canvas
signed lower right

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $650

Lot 114
Eric Sloane

New Hampshire Autumn
24" x 31 1/2" oil on masonite
titled lower left
signed verso and retains Abercrombie & Fitch label
original "Sloane" barn board frame

estimate 20,000/30,000

SOLD $18000


Lot 115
Eric Sloane

Johnson County, Tennessee
24"x 26" oil on masonite
signed lower right
titled lower left

estimate 12,000/18,000

passed

Lot 116
Hudson River School

View Along The Banks
(Ossining, New York)
inscribed verso on stretcher "Sing S.."
22"x36" oil on canvas

estimate 2000/3000

SOLD $1100

Lot 118
Johann Berthelsen

Times Square in Winter
16" x 12" oil on board
signed lower right

estimate 3000/5000

SOLD $2200

Lot 120
Charles Edward Dixon

Larchmont Yacht Race
13"x49" oil on board
signed lower left,
dated 1930

estimate 3000/5000

SOLD $9500

commissioned from the artist by the consignor's grandfather for his billiard room


Lot 121
Charles Edward Dixon

Off the Cliffs of Dover
13"x46" oil on board
signed lower left,
dated 1930

estimate 3000/5000

SOLD $3600

commissioned from the artist by the consignor's grandfather for his billiard room


Lot 122
Princess Marie Eristoff
Parisian Fountain
28 1/2" x 23 1/2" oil on canvas
signed "Marie" lower right
and fully signed verso
dated 1911

estimate 3000/5000

passed

Lot 123
Frank Kirkpatrick

The Proposition
16"x12" oil on canvas
signed lower left

estimate 1000/1500

SOLD $600

Lot 124
Carl Weber

Farm Scene With Sheep
17"x27" watercolor
signed lower right

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $400

Lot 125
American School

Western Landscape With Adobe
10"x14" watercolor
signed indistinctly lower right,
"F.S. ???"

estimate 400/600

SOLD $200

Lot 126
John Gould

Original advertising illustration featuring the artist's sons as models

21" x 29" oil on board

signed "Gould" lower left
reduced in size
mid-20th century

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $550

Lot 127
Ernest Fiene

Colonial Church (in Winter)
22" x 26" oil on canvas
signed lower right

estimate 600/900

SOLD $1300

Lot 129
American School

Horses with Yearling

9" x 14" oil on canvas
apparently unsigned

estimate 500/750

SOLD $650

Lot 130
James Wells Champney

Sewing Time
24"x20" oil on canvas
signed lower left

estimate 3000/5000

SOLD $2600

Lot 131
Italian School

St. Michael
25" x 19" oil on canvas
probably a fragment
18th century

estimate 600/900

SOLD $1200

Lot 132
Dewitt McClellan Lockman

Portrait of "The Admiral"
40"x32" oil on canvas
signed upper right

estimate 800/1200

passed

Lot 133
Charles S. Mottram

Fishermen on the Beach
12" x 18" watercolor
signed and dated lower right, 1890

estimate 400/600

SOLD $350

Lot 134
Old Master

St. Catherine At The Window
9" x 11" oil on tin
with a period frame

estimate 1200/1800

SOLD $950

Lot 135
Elizabeth Anne McGillivray Knowles

Chickens
3 1/4" x 4 1/2" oil on board
signed lower left

estimate 400/600

SOLD $550

Lot 136
Bertha DesClayes

Winter on the Farm
3 3/4" x 4 3/4" gouache
signed lower left

estimate 600/900

SOLD $600

Lot 137
Eric Sloane

a pair of pastel "cloudscapes" with planes
15"x20" and 14"x18", unframed
both signed, one dated 1942

estimate 800/1200

SOLD $1400

Lot 138
Louis David Vaillant

Bacchus With Pumkin
22"x36" oil on canvas

estimate 600/900

SOLD $600

Lot 139
Louis David Vaillant

The Feast
33" x 37" oil on canvas

signed lower right

estimate 600/900

SOLD $750

Lot 140
Louis David Vaillant

Flower Arranging
18"x24" oil on canvas
unsigned

estimate 400/600

SOLD $375

Lot 141
Louis David Vaillant

Bacchus
24"x24" oil on canvas

unsigned

estimate 400/600

SOLD $750

Lot 142
Louis David Vaillant

Sisters
18"x36" oil on canvas
unsigned

estimate 400/600

SOLD $500

Lot 143
Louis David Vaillant

The Family Picnic
34"x34" oil on canvas
unsigned

estimate 400/600

SOLD $400

Lot 144
Alexis Kreyder

Floral Still Life
42" x 30" oil on canvas
late 19th century

estimate 600/900

SOLD $3400

Lot 145
Kuba Scatter Rug

40" x 51"
circa 1900

estimate 300/500

SOLD $600

Lot 147
Tiffany & Company 18k Gold Ladies Pocket Watch

with diamond studded monogram verso
with 14k pinback

estimate 400/600

SOLD $400

Lot 150
Victorian Mahogany Revival Secretary

with block front, shell carving and elaborate crest
98" high, 38" wide, 19" deep
circa 1900

estimate 2000/3000

SOLD $3400