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Alexander Adriaenssen (Antwerp 1587-1661)
Lot 34

Alexander Adriaenssen (Antwerp 1587-1661)

A silver plate with seafood, a roll of bread, a 'Façon-de-Venise of red wine', a 'keulse pot', an artichoke, dead birds, an orange, a partially pealed lemon and a knife

Closed10 November 2008

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Alexander Adriaenssen (Antwerp 1587-1661)
A silver plate with seafood, a roll of bread, a 'Façon-de-Venise of red wine', a 'keulse pot', an artichoke, dead birds, an orange, a partially pealed lemon and a knife
oil on panel
50.6 x 66.3 cm.

with J. Leger & Son, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 March 1950, lot 135, as De Heem (£42.0.0 to Welker).
Since the mid 1950s in the possession of the family of the present owner.

Specialist note

Two pictures with a similar composition with differences are mentioned by Dr. Godelieve Spiessens (see Leven en werk van de Antwerpse schilder Alexander Adriaenssen (1587-1661), Brussels, 1990, nos. 29 and 36, figs. 19 and 21) and a third was with Philips, London, 4 July 2000, lot 186.