Live Auction 20684Old Masters Part II
ROELOF KOETS I (HAARLEM 1592/93-1654/55)
Lot 135

ROELOF KOETS I (HAARLEM 1592/93-1654/55)

A gilt bekerschroef with the figure of Bacchus, pewter tableware, an earthenware jug, carved ham, bread, grapevines and fruit in a blue and white Wanli bowl, on a draped table

Closed7 July 2023

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GBP 25,000–35,000

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ROELOF KOETS I (HAARLEM 1592/93-1654/55)
A gilt bekerschroef with the figure of Bacchus, pewter tableware, an earthenware jug, carved ham, bread, grapevines and fruit in a blue and white Wanli bowl, on a draped table
oil on panel
32 ¾ x 45 ½ in. (83 x 115.5 cm.)

Private collection, Sweden.
Anonymous sale; Bukowski, Stockholm, 5-8 November 1975, lot 33.
with Richard Green, London, 1976–80.

Specialist note


The same bekerschroef with the gilt figure of Bacchus holding the glass aloft on his left shoulder is used in several other still lifes by Koets, including one that was sold in these Rooms on 19 July 1973, lot 193, and in another panel, signed and dated 1646, once recorded in the van der Meer collection, Amsterdam (see Vroom, op. cit., p. 85, no. 415). Dr. Fred G. Meijer endorsed the attribution to Koets in 2018 after first-hand inspection.