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》

Auction Closed

July 7, 06:31 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

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.

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.