Willem Kalf

Princess Louise-Henriette of Orange-Nassau (1627–1667), Schloss Oranienburg, near Berlin, before 1667 (Schloss Oranienburg Inventory 1699, 148);

Thence by descent to her son, King Frederick I of Prussia (1657–1713), Stadtschloss, Berlin (Stadtschloss Inventories 1793 and 1811, A 120; Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Generalkatalog 1860, GK I 2255);

Thence by descent to Emperor William II (1859–1941), Huis Doorn, Doorn, 1918;

From whom acquired by the art dealer Delius Giese, London and New York, 1938;

By whom sold to Eugène Leopold Garbáty (1885–1966), Schloss Alt-Döbern, Nieder-Lausitz, and later Shorehaven, East Norwalk, Connecticut;

By whom sold ('The Property of Eugene L. Garbaty Esq.'), London, Sotheby's, 25 April 1956, lot 82, for £1,120 to Duits;

With Duits & Co., Dordrecht, Amsterdam and London, 1956–58;

From whom acquired by Emile Wolf (1899–1996), New York, 1958;

Thence by descent.

New York, World Fair, Masterpieces of Art. Catalogue of European & American paintings, 1500–1900. New York's World Fair, 1940, no. 104;

Corning, New York, The Corning Museum of Glass, Glass vessels in Dutch painting of the seventeenth century, 15 August – 1 October 1952, no. 9;

New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Still life painters: Pieter Aertsen (1508–1575) to Georges Braque (1882–1963), 2 February 1965, no. 57;

Waltham, Massachusetts, Poses Institute of Fine Arts at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Seventeenth-century paintings from the Low Countries, 27 February – 27 March 1966, no. 17;

Providence, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; Tampa, The Tampa Museum; Norfolk, The Chrysler Museum, The Discovery of the Everyday: Seventeenth Century Dutch paintings from the Wolf Collection, 1982–83, no. 24;

The Hague, Mauritshuis, and San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum, Great Dutch paintings from America, 28 September 1990 – 13 January 1991 and 16 February – 5 May 1991, no. 37;

Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, on loan;

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, on loan.

J.D.F. Rumpf, Beschreibung der aeussern und inneren Merkwurdigkeiten der koeniglichen Schlosser in Berlin, Charlottenberg, Schoenhausen, in und bey Potsdam, Berlin 1794, p. 142;

W. Pach, Masterpieces of Art. Catalogue of European and American paintings, 1500–1900. New York's World Fair, exh. cat., New York 1940, pp. 77–78, no. 104;

Glass vessels in Dutch painting of the seventeenth century, exh. cat., Corning, New York 1952, pp. 25 and 31, no. 9, reproduced pl. V;

'Notable works of art now on the market', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 99, 1957, supplement (n.p.), reproduced pl. XI;

R.L. Manning, Still life painters: Pieter Aertsen (1508–1575) to Georges Braque (1882–1963), exh. cat., New York 1965, no. 57, reproduced;

C. Gilbert, Seventeenth-century paintings from the Low Countries, exh. cat., Waltham, Massachusetts 1966, p. 40, no. 17, reproduced p. 41;

L. Grisebach, Willem Kalf: 1619–1693, Berlin 1974, pp. 160 and 262–63, no. 111, reproduced fig. 117;

F.W. Robinson, The Discovery of the Everyday: Seventeenth Century Dutch paintings from the Wolf Collection, exh. cat., Tampa 1982, unpaginated, no. 24, reproduced in colour on the inside cover;

S. Segal and W.B. Jordan, A prosperous past: the sumptuous still life in the Netherlands 1600–1700, exh. cat., The Hague 1988, pp. 195 and 221 n. 40;

B. Broos et al., Great Dutch paintings from America, exh. cat., The Hague 1990, pp. 310–13, no. 37, reproduced in colour (as datable to circa 1660).