Willem Kalf

Still life with a Chinese ginger jar, silver, objects of vertu, a cut melon, bread, a paper packet in a porcelain bowl, and a pink rose, all on a table draped with a Persian carpet | 《靜物：桌上的瓷薑罐、古董銀器、切開的蜜瓜、麵包、瓷碟上的紙捲與粉紅玫瑰，桌面鋪波斯毛毯》

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July 7, 06:31 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Collection

Willem Kalf

Rotterdam 1619 - 1693 Amsterdam

Still life with a Chinese ginger jar, silver, objects of vertu, a cut melon, bread, a paper packet in a porcelain bowl, and a pink rose, all on a table draped with a Persian carpet

signed with initials and dated lower left: WK 1658

oil on canvas

100.3 x 82.7 cm.; 39½ x 32½ in.

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：桌上的瓷薑罐、古董銀器、切開的蜜瓜、麵包、瓷碟上的紙捲與粉紅玫瑰，桌面鋪波斯毛毯》

款識：藝術家簽姓名縮寫並紀年WK 1658（左下）

油彩畫布

100.3 x 82.7 公分；39½ x 32½ 英寸

William Allan Coats (1853–1926), Skelmorlie Castle, Dalskairth, Dumfriesshire, by 1902;

Thence by descent to his son, Thomas Heywood Coats (1898–1958), Levernholme, Nitshill, Renfrewshire;

By whom offered, London, Christie’s, 12 April 1935, lot 77, where unsold;

Thence by descent.

London, Forbes & Paterson, A collection of pictures by Dutch masters of the XVIIth century, February 1902, no. 4;

London, Forbes & Paterson, A collection of pictures by Dutch masters of the XVIIth century, June 1903, no. 12;

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dutch Exhibition, 30 March – 10 May 1904, no. 294;

London, Royal Society of British Artists, Pictures and drawings being the entire collection of the late W.A. Coats, Esqre., January 1927, no. 160 or 167.

W.B. Paterson, Catalogue of the collection of pictures of the French, Dutch, British and other schools, belonging to W.A. Coats, Glasgow 1904, cat. no. XXII, reproduced;

F. Thieme and U. Becker, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, vol. XIX, Leipzig 1926, p. 465;

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

L. Grisebach, Willem Kalf, 1974, p. 253, cat. no. 92a (where listed as a copy, and provenance confused with cat. no. 93; see footnote 6);

F. Fowle, ‘Souvenirs and Fêtes Champêtres: William Allan Coats’s Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Paintings’, in Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, 2009, vol. 14, p. 64.