Nearly all of the roughly 550 individual items and “lots,” or groups of items, belonging to Dr. Louis and Jenepher Field of Richland sold during a recent auction.

Terry Maurer, who runs Maurer Antique Appraisals with his wife, Kathy, told the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business that the item fetching the highest price – a mid-century modern Heron chair and ottoman from a Japanese designer and manufacturer – went to a Tri-Cities couple.

It sold for $1,500, plus a buyer’s premium and fees. It’s believed the Fields originally bought it in the Tri-Cities in the 1960s.

An apothecary cabinet from Britain circa 1870, designed for compounding medicine in the field, went to a buyer in Virginia.

The cabinet was one of hundreds of unique pieces included in the auction, along with furniture, artwork, Persian rugs, porcelain and sterling, and other special and rare finds.

Macon Brothers Auctioneers in Walla Walla ran the auction, which closed on June 19.

Louis Field was a well-known orthopedic surgeon in the Tri-Cities. He met his wife, Jenepher, while in New Zealand for a research fellowship.

She was born in the South Pacific nation, to English parents. Her mother and father loved antiques, and many of the items in the couple’s collection came from them.

Along with the apothecary cabinet, other standout items included a Welsh oak dresser from 1800; English porcelain, including Rockingham and Mintons pieces; artwork by well-known New Zealand and Japanese artists; and British sterling silver items dating to 1801.

Maurer said the quality, history and variety of the pieces made the Field collection special.

The Fields ended up in the Tri-Cities in the 1960s. Louis joined Dr. Richard Petty in forming Tri-Cities Orthopedics, and for a time they were the only orthopedic surgeons in town, helping to serve all three hospitals.

He made a particular impact at what’s now Kadlec Regional Medical Center; he was among the local physicians who raised money to move the hospital from Army barracks to its current home.

Jenepher, meanwhile, went back to school as the couple’s four children were entering their teen years, earning a degree in behavioral science and going on to work as a counselor at the Hanford site.

In retirement, the Fields opened Sagemoor Kennels in Pasco.

Louis Field died in September 2022, leaving behind Jenepher, children Henry, Catherine, Elizabeth and Michael and their spouses, plus grandchildren and other relatives.