Footnotes

• Provenance
  Count Moltke Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark, early 19th century
  With Van Diemen and Co., The Hague, by 1928
  Sale, Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 29 November 1931, lot 27
  Benny Dessau, until his death in 1937 and thence by descent to his son
  Elnar Dessau and thence by descent in the family until offered
  Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 200
  With Frances Aronson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA, where purchased by the present owner in 1999
  
  Exhibited
  Tulsa, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Old Master Dutch and Flemish Paintings, June 2002- May 2003
  
  Literature
  R. Warner, Dutch and Flemish Fruit and Flower Paintings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries, London, 1928, p. 128, ill. fig. 59b
  N.R.A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketj, Amsterdam, 1945, cat. no. 112, ill., fig. 128
  P. Gammelbo, Dutch Still-life Painting from the 16th to 18th Centuries in Danish Collections, Copenhagen, 1960, p. 52, under no. 55 (footnote)
  N.R.A. Vroom, A modest message as intimated by the painters of the Monochrome Banketje, Schiedam, 1980, vol. I, p. 139, ill. fig. 184, vol. II, p. 45, no. 204
  
  We are grateful to Dr. Fred Meijer for confirming the attribution to Cornelis Kruys upon examination of colour photographs.

Saleroom notices

• Please note that estimates for this lot should be: £18,000-25,000