A ham on a pewter platter, a pealed lemon and a roll on pewter platters, a tankard, a roemer and a goblet, on a partly-draped table

Details

Circle of Pieter Claesz. (Westphalia c. 1597/8-1661 Haarlem)
A ham on a pewter platter, a pealed lemon and a roll on pewter platters, a tankard, a roemer and a goblet, on a partly-draped table
with monogram 'PC' (centre right, on the tankard)
oil on panel
21¾ x 33 3/8 in. (55.2 x 84.6 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Brussels, Fivez, 10 March 1927, lot 36, as 'W.C. Heda'. with Knoedler, New York, 1962, as 'P. Claesz'.
with Douwes, Amsterdam.
with Daniel Katz, Dieren.

Literature

N.R.A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochromebanketje, Amsterdam, 1945, pp. 33-4, no. 40, fig. 20, as 'Pieter Claesz.'.
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message, Schiedam, 1980, II, p. 23, no. 77, illustrated, as 'Pieter Claesz.'.
M. Brunner-Bulst, Pieter Claesz., Lingen, 2004, p. 254, under no. 88, as copy no. 4.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

This is a close variant, believed by Vroom to be autograph, of a still-life by Claesz. in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. The main differences being the lemon (lower left), which replaces a broken glass in the Munich painting, and the absence of broken walnuts on the table. We are grateful to Fred Meijer, of the RKD, The Hague, for suggesting a tentative attribution to Pieter van Berendrecht (Haarlem 1616-after 1662).

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