Lot 37: Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg ?1593/4-1657 Delft) Fruit on a porcelain platter, with apples, a rose, shells, insects and a lizard... oil on panel 19 5/8 x 30 ¼ in. (49.8 x 76.3 cm.)

Balthasar van der Ast
(Middelburg ?1593/4-1657 Delft)
Fruit on a porcelain platter, with apples, a rose, shells, insects and a lizard on a stone ledge, with a parrot on an upturned basket
signed 'B. vander: Ast' (lower left, on the ledge)
oil on panel
19 5/8 x 30 ¼ in. (49.8 x 76.3 cm.)

Private collection, Switzerland, by 1920, and by descent in the family until 2012.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 December 2012, lot 16, when acquired by the present owner.