Floris van Schooten

Still life of assorted fruit with two blue-and-white porcelain bowls

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October 21, 04:31 PM GMT

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15,000 - 20,000 USD

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By Land and By Sea, The Collection of Paul Yeou Chichong

Floris van Schooten

Haarlem(?) circa 1590 - 1656 Haarlem

Still life of assorted fruit with two blue-and-white porcelain bowls

oil on oak panel

panel: 14½ by 23⅝ in.; 36.8 by 60.0 cm.

framed: 21⅝ by 30¾ in.; 54.9 by 78.1 cm.

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With Galerie Pardo, Paris, 1963;
Private collection;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 2 December 1977, lot 106;
Anonymous sale, Zurich, Waterman, 3 June 1978;
Waterman collection, Amsterdam, by 1980;
Private collection, Antwerp;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 15 February 1989, lot 139 (where remnants of a signature were noted);
With Galerie De Jonkheere, Paris;
From whom acquired by the present collector, circa 1989.

P. Gammelbo, "Floris Gerritsz. van Schooten," in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 17 (1966), p. 142, cat. no. 112;
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as Intimated by the Painters of the Monochrome Banketje, Schiedam 1980, vol. 2, p. 119, cat. no. 608 (where remnants of a signature were noted).

This composition features a delightful assortment of fruit, including plums, cherries, gooseberries, strawberries, grapes, and a pair of apples arrayed on a dark green tablecloth. The two porcelain bowls, featuring foliate arabesques and chrysanthemum motifs, were almost certainly based on real examples of Jingdezhen ware. Produced in China for the European market, such objects are indicative of the widespread trade networks that fostered material exchange between East and West.

We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer for endorsing the present attribution on the basis of digital photographs and for his assistance cataloguing the work.