Jan Fris (Amsterdam 1627 - 1672), Still Life with an earthenware Jug, a deck of cards and smoking paraphernalia. Oil on Panel, 38.1 x 29.4 cm. © David Koetser Gallery.

Provenance: J. Danser Nijman, Amsterdam;
Macalester Loup, The Hague;
Henry Philip Hope (1774-1839), London;
Thence by descent to his nephew Henry Thomas Hope (1808-1862);
By whom bequeathed to his widow, Anne Adèle Bichat;
By whom bequeathed to her grandson, Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope (1866-1941), 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, in 1884;
With Asher Wertheimer, London, 1889;
With Duits, London;
Alfred Brod, 1956;
Private Collection, United States.

Exhibition: Providence 1964, no. 8; New York, Finch College 1966, no. 11; The Golden Age of Dutch Painting, Birmingham, Museum of Art 1995, no. 6; New Orleans 1997, no. 19; Baltimore 1999, no. 18.

Literature: S. Nihom-Nijstad, Reflets du Siècle d’Or. Tableaux Hollandais du dix-septième siècle, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris 1983, p. 52;
New Orleans 1997, pp. 49-50, cat. no. 19, reproduced. 50;
Baltimore 1999, pp. 48-49, cat. no. 18, reproduced p. 49.

David Koetser Gallery, Talstrasse 37, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland