Willem Kalf

Princess Louise-Henriette of Orange-Nassau (1627–1667), Schloss Oranienburg, near Berlin, before 1667 (Schloss Oranienburg Inventory 1699, 148);

Thence by descent to her son, King Frederick I of Prussia (1657–1713), Stadtschloss, Berlin (Stadtschloss Inventories 1793 and 1811, A 120; Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Generalkatalog 1860, GK I 2255);

Thence by descent to Emperor William II (1859–1941), Huis Doorn, Doorn, 1918;

From whom acquired by the art dealer Delius Giese, London and New York, 1938;

By whom sold to Eugène Leopold Garbáty (1885–1966), Schloss Alt-Döbern, Nieder-Lausitz, and later Shorehaven, East Norwalk, Connecticut;

By whom sold ('The Property of Eugene L. Garbaty Esq.'), London, Sotheby's, 25 April 1956, lot 82, for £1,120 to Duits;

With Duits & Co., Dordrecht, Amsterdam and London, 1956–58;

From whom acquired by Emile Wolf (1899–1996), New York, 1958;

Thence by descent.

J.D.F. Rumpf, Beschreibung der aeussern und inneren Merkwurdigkeiten der koeniglichen Schlosser in Berlin, Charlottenberg, Schoenhausen, in und bey Potsdam, Berlin 1794, p. 142;

W. Pach, Masterpieces of Art. Catalogue of European and American paintings, 1500–1900. New York's World Fair, exh. cat., New York 1940, pp. 77–78, no. 104;

Glass vessels in Dutch painting of the seventeenth century, exh. cat., Corning, New York 1952, pp. 25 and 31, no. 9, reproduced pl. V;

'Notable works of art now on the market', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 99, 1957, supplement (n.p.), reproduced pl. XI;

R.L. Manning, Still life painters: Pieter Aertsen (1508–1575) to Georges Braque (1882–1963), exh. cat., New York 1965, no. 57, reproduced;

C. Gilbert, Seventeenth-century paintings from the Low Countries, exh. cat., Waltham, Massachusetts 1966, p. 40, no. 17, reproduced p. 41;

L. Grisebach, Willem Kalf: 1619–1693, Berlin 1974, pp. 160 and 262–63, no. 111, reproduced fig. 117;

F.W. Robinson, The Discovery of the Everyday: Seventeenth Century Dutch paintings from the Wolf Collection, exh. cat., Tampa 1982, unpaginated, no. 24, reproduced in colour on the inside cover;

S. Segal and W.B. Jordan, A prosperous past: the sumptuous still life in the Netherlands 1600–1700, exh. cat., The Hague 1988, pp. 195 and 221 n. 40;

B. Broos et al., Great Dutch paintings from America, exh. cat., The Hague 1990, pp. 310–13, no. 37, reproduced in colour (as datable to circa 1660).

New York, World Fair, Masterpieces of Art. Catalogue of European & American paintings, 1500–1900. New York's World Fair, 1940, no. 104;

Corning, New York, The Corning Museum of Glass, Glass vessels in Dutch painting of the seventeenth century, 15 August – 1 October 1952, no. 9;

New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Still life painters: Pieter Aertsen (1508–1575) to Georges Braque (1882–1963), 2 February 1965, no. 57;

Waltham, Massachusetts, Poses Institute of Fine Arts at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Seventeenth-century paintings from the Low Countries, 27 February – 27 March 1966, no. 17;

Providence, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; Tampa, The Tampa Museum; Norfolk, The Chrysler Museum, The Discovery of the Everyday: Seventeenth Century Dutch paintings from the Wolf Collection, 1982–83, no. 24;

The Hague, Mauritshuis, and San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum, Great Dutch paintings from America, 28 September 1990 – 13 January 1991 and 16 February – 5 May 1991, no. 37;

Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, on loan;

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, on loan.