Neal Auction Louisiana Purchase 2015

4 MASTERWORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF D. BENJAMIN KLEINPETER, SR. D. Benjamin Kleinpeter is descended from early settlers of Louisiana. The first Kleinpeters arrived in 1774 at Bayou Manchac . They moved to higher ground not long after, receiving in 1787 a Spanish land grant for four hundred arpents in what is today East Baton Rouge Parish. Mr. Kleinpeter ‘s interest in antiques began with Louisiana-made duck decoys and grew to include Louisiana paintings, furniture and related decorative arts, notably Newcomb pottery. Objects from the collection have been published in Furnishing Louisiana, Newcomb Pottery & Crafts, Collecting Passions and The Magazine Antiques . Neal Auction Company is pleased to offer select objects from the D. Benjamin Kleinpeter collection. Ref. Bacot,H. Parrott et al. Furnishing Louisiana ; Poesch, Jessie. Newcomb Pottery & Crafts. McLear, Donna. Collecting Passions: Highlights from the LSU Museum of Art Collection ; and Bacot, H. Parrott. “Living with Antiques: The Sebastian Louis Kleinpeter House in Baton Rouge, Louisiana”, The Magazine Antiques , April, 1991.