Willem Kalf

Still life with a Chinese ginger jar, a porcelain bowl, a glass roemer and other objects of vertu, with a half-peeled lemon, orange, and melon, all on a marble ledge draped with a Persian carpet 《靜物：大理石臺上的瓷薑罐、瓷盌、玻璃大酒杯與其他工藝品，半削皮檸檬、橙與蜜瓜，鋪波斯毯》

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Property from a European Private Collection

Willem Kalf

Rotterdam 1619 - 1693 Amsterdam

Still life with a Chinese ginger jar, a porcelain bowl, a glass roemer and other objects of vertu, with a half-peeled lemon, orange, and melon, all on a marble ledge draped with a Persian carpet

oil on canvas

55 x 68 cm.; 21⅝ x 26¾ in.

歐洲私人收藏

威廉・卡爾夫

1619年生於鹿特丹，1693年卒於阿姆斯特丹

《靜物：大理石臺上的瓷薑罐、瓷盌、玻璃大酒杯與其他工藝品，半削皮檸檬、橙與蜜瓜，鋪波斯毯》

油彩畫布

55 x 68 公分；21 ⅝ x 26 ¾ 英寸

Possibly sale, Amsterdam, 8 February 1773, lot 72 (‘Een stil Leven, natuurlyk op Doek geschilderd, door Kalf, h. 21 1/2, b. 27 duim’);

Dr Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury and Dean of Manchester (1874–1966);

With David Koetser, Zurich, 1947;

Private collection, United Kingdom;

Whence anonymously sold, London, Sotheby’s, 16 July 1980, lot 203;

Where acquired by Rolf O. Fuhrken, Bremen;

By whom sold, Vienna, Dorotheum, 14 October 2008, lot 44 (for 467,300 EUR), where acquired by the present owner.

Kassel, Museum Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, on loan 1982–1999, inv. no. L1000;

Hanover, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, on loan 1999–2008;

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, and Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Gemältes Licht. Die Stilleben von Willem Kalf 1619–1693, 25 November 2006 – 18 February 2007 and 8 March – 3 June 2007, no. 33.

A. Spriggs, ‘Transitional Porcelain Ginger Jars’, in Oriental Art, Summer 1965, vol. XI, no. 2, p. 96, no. 4;

S. Segal, A prosperous past: the sumptuous still life in the Netherlands 1600–1700, exh. cat., The Hague 1988, p. 221, n. 50;

E. Gemar-Koeltzsch, Lexikon der Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, Lingen 1995, vol. 2, p. 555, no. 194/38, reproduced in colour vol. 1, p. 164, fig. 56;

C. Bottermann, in TausendSchön – Neue Schätze im Niedersächsischen Landesmuseum Hannover – Neuerwerbungen 1992 bis 2005. Die CD, H. Grape-Albers (ed.), CD-rom, Hanover 2005;

Sylvia Böhmer in J. Giltaij (ed.), Gemältes Licht. Die Stilleben von Willem Kalf 1619–1693, exh. cat., Munich 2007, pp. 136–38, no. 33, reproduced in colour (as datable to circa 1660).