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Lot 24

Jan Pauwel Gillemans I (Antwerp 1618-1675)

Cherries and a conch shell on a silver platter, a cut and peeled lemon, a pomegranate, grapes, a glass of wine, walnuts and berries in a kraak porcelain bowl, on a partly-draped wooden table

Closed30 April 2010

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GBP 21,250

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Jan Pauwel Gillemans I (Antwerp 1618-1675)
Cherries and a conch shell on a silver platter, a cut and peeled lemon, a pomegranate, grapes, a glass of wine, walnuts and berries in a kraak porcelain bowl, on a partly-draped wooden table
indistinctly signed 'JP Gillemans' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.3 cm.)

with Charles E. Luton, Birmingham, from whom purchased in 1936 by
Ronald Cox.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Fred Meijer of the RKD for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs, and for commenting that it is probably a fairly early work (of the late 1640s or early 1650s).