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Jan Mortel (Leiden 1650-1719)
Lot 545 A

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

Closed30 April 2015

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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.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1937, lot 70, as J. Mortel.
Private Collection, United Kingdom.

Specialist note

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.