Raise a Glass in Teatown!

Hudson Estate sales is raising the glass to celebrate the life and works of the charismatic couple who occupied this 150-year old farm house nestled in the woods of Teatown for 60 years. This sale features: 

• “Surfboard” coffee table by McCobb(1965)
• Robin Day Lounge Chair with ottoman for Hille Furniture c. 1970
• Antique mahogany Gondola chairs
• Duncan Phyfe-type Federal dining table, c. early19th C
• Federal shield-back mahogany dining chairs
• Regency mahogany gate leg tea table
• Vintage campaign chest low dresser (Swinger’s Collection by Schoolfield Industries, div. Hickory Furniture) 1970s
• Vintage campaign chest with bookcase, 1970s
• Danish teak media cabinet by Feldballes Mobel Fabrik 
• Tomas Ozuna Native American pottery
• Christoph Wohl Action glass vase
• Hand-blown glassware and ceramic tiles by Liana Moss
• Antique carved Florentine mirror
• Dansk flutes
• New Orleans coin silver ladle marked Gregor & Wilson c. 1850s
• Aesthetic Movement silver plated teapots and champagne cooler, c. 1870s
• Weighted sterling silver candlesticks
• Cave a liqueurs w/ 4 decanters, 10 cordial glasses
• Vintage Staffordshire Brown Calico ironstone  
• Vintage stereo components (Mitsubishi, Nakamichi, etc.)
• Original drypoint etching by Bertol Marisol
• Original painting by Jerry Smath
• Original stained glass panels and sculpture
• Original fiber arts, wall hangings, macrame, batik
• Antique spinning wheel
• Rustic workbench
• 2-stack barrister bookcase
• Hand-blown glass spheres
• Hand-blown glass ornaments
• Collectable stoneware
• Antique Victorian loveseat settee
• Collectible children's books

Hudson Estate Sales is pleased and honored to offer yet another unique sale on Saturday March 11 and Sunday March 12. The highlight of the sale will be the most comprehensive posthumous gathering of both early and later works of original leaded-glass by the esteemed artist Anne Moss, (who died on September 7, 2022) that has ever been assembled for public view, under one roof.

Concurrently, there will also be a sale of the possessions of Anne and Lloyd Moss, who were fixtures of their  cultural communities, both locally and at large. Lloyd Moss was a renown radio show host and personality for over 50 years on WQXR in New York,  well as a children’s book author (most famously for the Caldecott Honor-winning book, Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin) Anne was a life long artist, art historian, former high-profile Clairol model (Did she or didn’t she?), wife and mom.  

Anne's small leaded panels were concise gems of modern design. These formal arrangements of abstract, converging shapes and lines were commissioned in many Westchester homes, exhibited in many galleries across the country, and included in the Whitney Museum's "Store Next Door" 

Riding the wave of a glamorous modeling career with an active social calendar, Anne managed to gracefully and assuredly leap in and out of the mainstream, while quietly fronting societal changes and embracing progressive causes. Anne and her husband Lloyd Moss, a well-known WQXR personality who predeceased her, split their time between NY and their Teatown home, where they raised a brood of four. Although the nest has long-ago emptied. piles of photo albums speak to an idyllic 60 years of friends and family ... deep the woods of Teatown. Let’s raise a glass to Anne and Lloyd, this legendary pair who were often, indeed, the Toast of the Town (Teatown, that is.)

Anne Moss's primary medium was stained glass, intricate constructions that sometimes escape their rectangular boundaries. More than an interplay of light and color and texture,  they are  jewel-like, inner worlds containing infinite depth, held together by the constrains of steel frames and lead lines. Her inspiration is the natural light that shifts angles and moves through the house. The glass panel projects hang in the large, picture windows on sun-drenched porches of the house overlooking the woods. They are serious art, for sure, but they bring a touch of self-deprecating whimsy. In one piece, a jewel-like droplet hovers tantalizingly over an embedded martini glass (proportioned to the perfect measure of Vermouth, no doubt) — as if it's waiting for 5:00. Another of her works combines lenses and frames from actual eyeglasses.

To be inside the house is to experience Anne’s inner world. Her art is tucked into nooks, flanking doorways, and crowning windows...even bathroom mirrors are graced with color and light.  Anne brought an appreciation for color, shape and line to all her design work, whether, drawing, crewel work, multi-media fiber arts, batik or macrame. Later, she boldly graduated to die cut steel and welding. Her crafts took time and patience, and she mastered everything she tried. It’s not hard to imagine Anne in her Teatown workshop, head bent over her workbench, molten solder smoking, while her ideas for her next project, and the one after that, tumbled and swirled around her head,  like the iridescent gold and silver swirls in the colored glass

The houses sits on seven acres of pristine wilderness, on a land so full of rocks that early farmers could only grow sheep.... the area known as Teatown, now a protected nature preserve, is rumored to have been named after a women-lead insurrection during the Revolutionary War, upon a merchant known to have hoarded chests full of tea.

The wraparound porches, with commanding views of the property, are broad and generous. It’s the kind of house that oozes the kind of charm and comfort, where people didn't stop to remove their shoes, and the screen door slammed out a summer cadence. Stained glass panels are everywhere, casting colors around the room and spilling it on the walls. The grand porches say: “Glad you could make it...Come on in, and sit a while.”