Lot 121
  • 121

ROELOF KOETS THE ELDER | Still life including a gilt bekerschroef, pewter table wear, a carved ham and fruit in a blue and white Wanli bowl, on a draped table

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Roelof Koets the Elder
  • Still life including a gilt bekerschroef, pewter table wear, a carved ham and fruit in a blue and white Wanli bowl, on a draped table
  • oil on oak panel
  • 83 x 117 cm.; 32 5/8  x 46 in.

Provenance

Private collection, Sweden;
Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Bukowski, 5–8 November 1975, lot 33;
With Richard Green, London, 1976–80. 

Literature

N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the painters of the 'monochrome banketje', Schiedman 1980, vol. II, p. 47, cat. no. 215, reproduced in colour p. 144, fig. 192 (as C. Cruys, 'until now attributed to R. Koets', and erroneously catalogued as on canvas).

Catalogue Note

A partial copy of the present work was sold Amsterdam, Christie's, 2 May 1991, lot 131, which omits the left quarter of the painting as well as the earthenware jug and pewter plate behind the gilt présentoir or bekerschroef (goblet holder) and partially carved ham. The same bekerschroef with the guilt Bacchus holding the glass aloft on his left shoulder is used in several other still lifes by Koets, including one that was sold London, Christie's, 19 July 1973, lot 193, and another panel, signed and dated 1646, recorded in the Van Der Meer collection, Amsterdam.1 We are grateful to Dr. Fred G. Meijer for endorsing the attribution to Koets upon first-hand inspection.

1 See Vroom 1980, p. 85, cat. no. 415, reproduced.