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A Dutch Baroque engraved mother-of-pearl, bone and hardstone inlaid slate panel by Dirck Van Rijswijck (1596-1679)Third quarter 17th century
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Find your local specialistA Dutch Baroque engraved mother-of-pearl, bone and hardstone inlaid slate panel by Dirck Van Rijswijck (1596-1679)
Depicting a floral garland with a butterfly on a black marble ground above a variegated stone table top with dragonfly and squirrel, signed to the left-hand corner within a paper scroll, signed and dated: Dirck.Van Riswick, Invenit e Fecit, AD 1665, mounted within a later ebonised frame, 14.7cm wide, 11.5cm high, (5 1/2in wide, 4 1/2in high); the frame: 24cm wide, 21cm high (9 1/2in wide, 8in high)
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Provenance
Sotheby's, Monaco, Collection Delplace, 15 June 1996, lot 23.
Jeremy Ltd, London.
Although originally training as a goldsmith, Dirck Van Rijswijck developed his own characteristic style whilst working as a silversmith in Antwerp experimenting with the effects that could be created by the processes of engraving. This led him to perfect an idiosyncratic technique using engraved mother-of-pearl inlay to represent floral still life subjects. He used the natural variations of colour apparent in the shell to suggest the colours and surface textures of the various flowers. In terms of creative output, Rijswijck is recorded as producing a number of these mother-of-pearl inlaid panels depicting vases of flowers with some also incorporating a chained monkey. The fine and detailed engraved decoration to the panel in the present lot demonstrates a similarly high degree of technical skill very representative of Rijswijck's work.
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