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Floris van Schooten (c. 1585-after 1655 Haarlem)
Lot 155

Floris van Schooten (c. 1585-after 1655 Haarlem)

Bread on a pewter platter, an engraved silver cup, with grapes and a plum on a stone ledge

Closed5 December 2012

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GBP 8,125

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Floris van Schooten (c. 1585-after 1655 Haarlem)
Bread on a pewter platter, an engraved silver cup, with grapes and a plum on a stone ledge
oil on panel
14 7/8 x 12 in. (37.8 x 30.5 cm.)

A.W. Volz, The Hague; Sotheby's, London, 4 March 1964, lot 148, as 'Pieter Claesz' (650 gns. to Willis).
with Leonard Koetser, London, 1964, as 'Pieter Claesz.'

Specialist note

We are grateful to Fred Meijer, of the RKD, The Hague, for proposing the attribution, on the basis of photographs, and for pointing out that this is a fragment of an originally larger still-life composition.