Lot 2076 Dα

This work depicts a towering arrangement of pomegranate flowers, a plum branch, peaches and apricots in a porcelain vase placed on a stone ledge half covered by a crumpled length of gold brocade. Four pears are depicted on the stone ledge in front of the vase and two pomegranates on the gold cloth, one of which has been opened. A second porcelain vase is shown on the right, partly concealed by the arrangement in the foreground, and in the background, the image is completed by a voluminously draped length of red brocade. Claudia Salvi attributes this work to a studio employee of the French still life painter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, comparing it to several works by the artist and his studio in Boughton House, Kettering (The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry).