A filletted Herring on a Board, Parsnips on a silver Plate, Butter on a Plate, a Bunch of Spring Onions, a Beetroot, a Knife, a Spice Box, a Roemer, a Bread Roll, a Wine Glass and a stoneware Ewer on a wooden Table

Another work by this artist, previously attributed to Nicolaes Gillis, is in the University collection, Stockholm. The artist would appear to be German, testified by the typically German panel of the present picture, and appears to have worked in the earliest decades of the seventeenth century, as indicated by the high viewpoint and the objects depicted (the 'Krautstrunk' glass is a typical sixteenth-century type and the ewer can be dated to circa 1600).

We are grateful to Mr. Fred Meijer for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.