22 avril 2015

Pieter Claesz. (Berchem 1597/8 - 1660/1 Haarlem), Still life with a roemer, a roll, smoked herring, a watch, smoker's requisites, hazelnuts and a brazier, signed and dated on the edge of the table lower left: Pc (in compendium) Ao 162..5 or 6, oil on panel, oval, 11 1/2  by 15 3/8 in.; 29.3 by 39.2 cm. Estimate 400,000 — 600,000 USD. Unsold. Photo Sotheby's.  Provenance: With Leonard Koetser, London, 1965;Mr. A.S. Nolst Trenité, Rotterdam, 1967;David Koetser, 2006. Exhibition: London, Leonard Koetser, 1965... [Lire la suite]

Flemish School, 17th century, Vanitas still life with a vase of flowers, plate of fruit, skull, and box of jewels on draped wooden table, oil on canvas, 30 by 24  1/2  in.; 76.2 by 62.2 cm. Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 USD. Lot sold 32,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's.  Provenance: With H.H. Cevat, Laussane;Alfred Brod, 1969. Exhibition: New Orleans 1997, no. 51 (as Peeter Sion);Baltimore 1999, no. 50 (as Peeter Sion). Bibliography:  A. Veca, Vanitas: Il simbolismo del tempo, Bergamo 1981, pp. 102-103,... [Lire la suite]

Thomas Mertens (Active in Antwerp circa 1666), Still life with fruit and oysters on a table, signed and dated upper right: Tho. mertens. fecit 1666., oil on panel, 9 1/2  by 13 5/8  in.; 24 by 34.5 cm. Estimate 40,000 — 60,000 USD. Lot sold 43,750 USD. Photo Sotheby's. Provenance: David Koetser, 1989. Exhibition: David Koetser Gallery, Winter Exhibition 1989-90, no. 24, reproduced in color in the catalogue;New Orleans 1997, no. 27;Baltimore 1999, no. 25.  Bibliography:  J. de Maere and M.... [Lire la suite]

Otto Marseus van Schriek, called Snuffelaer (Nijmegen 1619/20 - 1678 Amsterdam), Nocturnal forest floor still life with a thistle, butterflies, mushrooms and a frog, indistinctly signed and dated lower right: OMar S(eus)? .S.  1671 (OM in ligature), oil on canvas, 23  1/4  by  18  5/8  in.; 59.1 by 47.3 cm. Estimate 80,000 — 120,000 USD. Lot sold 87,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's.  Provenance: Abraham Fontanel, Montpellier;From whom acquired by Jacques Joseph de Boussairolles (1741-1814),... [Lire la suite]

Jacob Marrel (Frankenthal 1613/14 - 1681 Frankfurt-Am-Main), Still life of flowers in a glass vase within a niche, with cherries, shells and a lizard, oil on panel, 16 3/4  by 13 1/2  in.; 42.4 by 34.2 cm. Estimate 150,000 — 200,000 USD. Lot sold 162,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's. Provenance: Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 19-20 May 1926, lot 235, (as A. Bosschaert), to A. Lepper, for £13-2-6;Lady Edith Bird, The White House, Solihull, Warwickshire;Alfred... [Lire la suite]

Jacob Marrel (Frankenthal 1613/14 - 1681 Frankfurt-Am-Main), Still life of flowers in a niche with cherries, insects and a caterpillar. signed at the corner of the niche, lower right: J. Marrel, oil on copper, 7 1/8  by 5 1/4  in.; 18.2 by 13.3 cm. Estimate 200,000 — 300,000 USD. Lot sold 334,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's. Provenance: Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 December 1979, lot 17;David Koetser, 1985. Exhibition: New Orleans 1997, no. 29;Baltimore 1999, no.... [Lire la suite]

Pieter de Ring (1615/1620 Leiden - 1660), Still Life with a Lemon, Rummer, Grapes, Cherries and Shellfish. Oil on panel. 40 x 34.5 cm. Signed with the ring to the left of the table. Estimated price: €50.000 - €60.000. Photo Lempertz 1845 Provenance: Prof. Helmut Becher (1896-1976), bis 2015 Leihgabe im Westfälischen Kunstmuseum. Note: Little is known about the life of the Leiden painter Pieter de Ring. He seems to have been taught by Jan Davidsz de Heem and to have opened his own studio shortly after. We have no record of a... [Lire la suite]

Ottmar Elliger the Elder (1633 Gothenburg - 1679 Berlin), Still life with Flowers, Red Admiral Butterfly and a Grasshopper. Oil on panel. 52.7 x 34.3 cm. Signed and dated lower left: Ottmar. Elliger. fecit. A °. 1667. Estimated price: €100.000 - €120.000. Photo Lempertz 1845 Provenance: Duits Limited, London.- Private ownership, Germany. Note: The painter and author Arnold Houbraken wrote in 1718 that Elliger was a pupil of Daniel Seghers in Antwerp. His early works display the influence of the German-Netherlandish still... [Lire la suite]

Balthasar van der Ast (circa 1594 Middelburg - 1657 Delft), A Vase of Flowers in a Niche with a Butterfly, Fly, Dragonfly and a Lizard. Oil on panel. 48.5 x 36.6 cm. Signed lower left: B. van der Ast. Estimated price: €100.000 - €120.000. Photo Lempertz 1845 Provenance: Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817-1897). - Alice Thayer (labelled to the reverse). - Eugène Slatter Gallery, London 1956. - Sotheby´s London 2.12.1964, lot 29. - Leggatt Brothers, London until 1965. - Christie´s 10.1.1980, lot 115. - Private collection, Germany. - On... [Lire la suite]

Low table (or footrest), Ming Dynasty, Yongle period. Red cinnabar on a yellow background, brownish black lacquer, 14.9 x 52.8 x 20.7 cm. Ident.Nr. 1978-3. Collection: Museum of Asian Art © Photo: Museum of Asian Art, the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. The low table with floral decoration is one of the masterpieces of Chinese Schnitzlackarbeiten the early Ming period and comes without doubt from the imperial workshops, as two closely related pieces testify in the collection of the Palace Museum in... [Lire la suite]