Lot Essay
We are grateful to Fred Meijer, of the RKD, The Hague, for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs and for dating the picture to the 1680s or early 1690s.
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An orange, roses, partially peeled lemon, strawberries in a Wanli 'kraak' porcelain plate with butterflies on a stone ledge, before a sculpted urn, a statue of Fortuna in a garden beyond
Details
Jan Mortel (Leiden 1650-1719)
An orange, roses, partially peeled lemon, strawberries in a Wanli 'kraak' porcelain plate with butterflies on a stone ledge, before a sculpted urn, a statue of Fortuna in a garden beyond
signed 'Mortel . fec:' (strengthened, on the ledge)
oil on panel
19 ½ x 15 in. (49.6 x 38.1 cm.)
An orange, roses, partially peeled lemon, strawberries in a Wanli 'kraak' porcelain plate with butterflies on a stone ledge, before a sculpted urn, a statue of Fortuna in a garden beyond
signed 'Mortel . fec:' (strengthened, on the ledge)
oil on panel
19 ½ x 15 in. (49.6 x 38.1 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1937, lot 70, as J. Mortel.
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
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