PIETER CLAESZ. (Steinfurt, Westphalia c. 1597-1660 Haarlem)
PIETER CLAESZ. (Steinfurt, Westphalia c. 1597-1660 Haarlem)

A Vanitas still life with a partially peeled lemon, grapes and olives on pewter dishes, an overturned gold tazza, an upturned glass, and a roemer of wine on a draped table

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PIETER CLAESZ. (Steinfurt, Westphalia c. 1597-1660 Haarlem)
A Vanitas still life with a partially peeled lemon, grapes and olives on pewter dishes, an overturned gold tazza, an upturned glass, and a roemer of wine on a draped table
indistinctly signed (?) with monogram 'PC' (on the end of the knife)
oil on panel
18 1/8 x 24 3/8 in. (46 x 61.9 cm.)
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 March 1973, lot 55.
J. Krauss, Paris and London, by 1977.
with Waterman, Amsterdam, 1981.
Literature
N.R.A. Vroom, De Schilders van Het Monochrome Banketje, 1945, p. 36, no. 49, fig. 23, as Pieter Claesz.
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message, Schiedam, 1980, I, fig. 19; and II, p. 27. no. 98 and p. 106, no. 532, as Clara Peeters or Pieter Cleasz.

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