Lot 173 · Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture
still life with a lobster on a pewter plate, lemons, grapes, apricots, oysters and a gold-mounted blue and white porcelain ewer, all on a wooden table top with a swallowtail butterfly
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- Estimate
- $200,000–$300,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture, New York · 27 January 2011
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3982832
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Laurens Craens, still life with a lobster on a pewter plate, lemons, grapes, apricots, oysters and a gold-mounted blue and white porcelain ewer, all on a wooden table top with a swallowtail butterfly. Sotheby's, 27 Jan 2011, lot 173. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3982832.
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Laurens Craens, still life with a lobster on a pewter plate, lemons, grapes, apricots, oysters and a gold-mounted blue and white porcelain ewer, all on a wooden table top with a swallowtail butterfly. Sotheby's, 27 Jan 2011, lot 173. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3982832.
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|---|---|---|---|
| A Roman Temple with Cattle herders | Jan Baptist Weenix | $40,000–$60,000 | |
| Scenes of the Commedia Dell'arte | — | $30,000–$50,000 | |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adriaen Van Ostade | a schoolroom interior | $519,000 | Sotheby's, Jan 2019 | |
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