Pieter Gallis

Anonymous sale, Copenhagen, V. Winkel & Magnussen, 23 September 1926, lot 44;

Where acquired by Asta and Niels Olesen, Denmark, until at least 1963;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 17 January 1985, lot 8;

Where acquired by a private collector;

Thereafter acquired by the present collector.

Copenhagen, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Ældre udenlandske malerier i privateje, October 1946, no. 45;

Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen i København, Hollandske og flamske stilleben fra 1600-tallet i dansk eje, 30 January - 28 February 1965, no. 34.

Kunst i Privateje, Copenhagen 1944, vol. II, p. 94, reproduced;

Katalog over aeldre udenlandske malerier fra privateje, udstillede, exhibition catalogue, Copenhagen 1946, p. 13, cat. no. 45;

P. Gammelbo, Dutch Still Life Paintings from the 16th-18th Centuries in Danish Collections, Copenhagen 1960, p. 90, cat. no. 117, reproduced;

C. Bogtrykkeri, Hollandske og flamske stilleben fra 1600-tallet i dansk eje Kunstforeningen, exhibition catalogue, Copenhagen 1965, p. 24, cat. no. 34.

An assortment of grapes, berries, and stone fruits spill over the edge of a white-and-blue porcelain Wanli bowl, which sits on a stone table. Both the dish and the edibles would have been imported from abroad, underscoring the imperial reach of the Dutch Empire and the luxurious domestic lifestyle that its mercantile imperialism facilitated.