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.

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).

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.