Lot 158
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Gerard van Spaendonck (Tilburg 1746-1822 Paris)
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS OF THE LATE MR. MEYER-PADWA (LOTS 156-161)
Gerard van Spaendonck (Tilburg 1746-1822 Paris)

Cabbage rose, white rose, Austrian copper briar, small morning glory, tazetta narcissus, jonquil, hyacinth, lachenalia, poppy anemone and cobaea on a marble ledge, with a high wicker basket filled with China asters, fuchsia and harebell with a kingfisher perched on a glass goldfish bowl

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Gerard van Spaendonck (Tilburg 1746-1822 Paris)
Cabbage rose, white rose, Austrian copper briar, small morning glory, tazetta narcissus, jonquil, hyacinth, lachenalia, poppy anemone and cobaea on a marble ledge, with a high wicker basket filled with China asters, fuchsia and harebell with a kingfisher perched on a glass goldfish bowl
signed 'G. van Spaendonck' (lower centre, on the ledge)
in bodycolour on ivory, with a gilt-metal mount, set into the cover of a bonbonnière
2¾ in. (7 cm.) diam.
Provenance
[Possibly] anonymous sale; Paillet & Delaroche, Paris, 11 July 1803, lot 337.
Collection Lespinasse d'Arlet de Langrac: 'Un beau Médaillon offrant différentes Fleurs groupées sur une Table, près d'un Bocal ou sont des Poissons. Morceau à Gouache dont l'exécution répond à la beauté du coloris, par Van Spaendonck'.
with Salomon Stodel, Amsterdam & London.
Literature
(Possibly) S. Segal in M. van Boven & S. Segal, Gerard & Cornelis van Spaendonck -- Twee Brabantse bloemenschilders in Parijs, Maarssen, 1980 (revised edition Maarssen & The Hague, 1988), p. 211, no. 262.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Another miniature with a fishbowl and goldfish by Gerard van Spaendonck, but with a basket of flowers and a goldfinch on an alabaster urn, is in the Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch. A fruit piece with a fishbowl has also been recorded (op. cit., p. 211). We are grateful to Dr. Sam Segal for his assistance with cataloguing this lot.

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