PIETER CLAESZ (BERCHEM 1597/8-1660/1 HAARLEM) An overturned silver tazza, a partly peeled lemon and an olive on a silver plate, walnuts, hazelnuts and a knife on a draped table

PIETER CLAESZ (BERCHEM 1597/8-1660/1 HAARLEM)
An overturned silver tazza, a partly peeled lemon and an olive on a silver plate, walnuts, hazelnuts and a knife on a draped table
signed in monogram 'PC' ('PC' linked, lower center, on the knife)
oil on panel
15 5/8 x 22 in. (39.8 x 56 cm.)

Provenance
M. Vicolié.
Gravin Bertier de Sauvigny, Antwerp, 1935, by descent to,
M.P. de Bertier.
with Edward Speelman Ltd., London, by 1990.
with Richard Green, London, 1996, where acquired by a private collector and by whom sold,
[Property from an Important European Private Collection]; Sotheby’s, London, 4 July 2007, lot 38.
with Sotheby's private sales, where acquired in 2010 by the present owner.