Lot 150
  • 150

JORIS VAN SON | Still life of oysters, cherries, grapes, citrus fruits and a glass roemer on a partially draped wooden table

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Circle of Joris van Son
  • Still life of oysters, cherries, grapes, citrus fruits and a glass roemer on a partially draped wooden table
  • indistinctly signed on the ledge, lower left: J. [...]
  • oil on oak panel
  • 28.3 x 39.8 cm.; 11 1/8  x 15 5/8  in.

Provenance

With Noortman Master Paintings, London and Maastricht;
From whom purchased by the present owner.

Condition

The single plank panel is uncradled, flat and stable. The paint surface is clean and very well preserved and the varnish is clear and even. The varnish fluoresces opaquely under ultraviolet light but little to no intervention is visible save for some pin prick retouchings scattered along the lower margin and possibly in the grapes. In overall very good condition. Offered in a plain, ebonised Dutch style frame in very good condition.
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