An upturned tazza, a roemer, a façon-de-Venise glass, oysters, a bun, a lemon, a knife and a tazza on pewter plates, with a porcelain bowl on a partly-draped ledge

Details

Circle of Cornelis Mahu (Antwerp c. 1613-1689)
An upturned tazza, a roemer, a façon-de-Venise glass, oysters, a bun, a lemon, a knife and a tazza on pewter plates, with a porcelain bowl on a partly-draped ledge
oil on canvas
90.6 x 177.6 cm.

Provenance

Clementin Collection, no. 27 (according to the sale catalogue of 1932).
H.I.R.H. Princess Gisela of Bavaria (1856-1932); (+) sale, Helbing, Munich, 28 September 1932, lot 307, as Willem Claesz. Heda (sold 1,150 marks).

Literature

N.R.A. Vroom, De Schilders van het Monochrome Banketje, Amsterdam, 1945, no. 146.
Idem, A Modest Message as intimated by the Painters of the Monochrome Banketje, Schiedam, 1980, II, p. 59, no. 286, as 'Gerrit Willem Heda.'

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Lot Essay

As noted by Vroom (1980 loc. cit.), the left half of the present composition is taken from a painting by Willem Claesz. Heda, signed and dated 1635, formerly with Brod, London (see ibid., p. 70, no. 351a, fig. 76).

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