Lot 56 · Old Master Pictures and Drawings
A silver dish with an oyster and a crab, a walnut, white grapes, a silver 'tazza', a porcelain bowl with lemons and a 'roemer', a bread roll, all on a draped table
Theodoor Smits · oil on panel
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- Estimate
- €20,000–€30,000 hammer ≈ $25,608–$38,412
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Old Master Pictures and Drawings, Amsterdam · 16 November 2006
- Dimensions
- 35.6 x 51.2 cm
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5624327
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Theodoor Smits, A silver dish with an oyster and a crab, a walnut, white grapes, a silver 'tazza', a porcelain bowl with lemons and a 'roemer', a bread roll, all on a draped table. Christie's, 16 Nov 2006, lot 56. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5624327.
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Theodoor Smits, A silver dish with an oyster and a crab, a walnut, white grapes, a silver 'tazza', a porcelain bowl with lemons and a 'roemer', a bread roll, all on a draped table. Christie's, 16 Nov 2006, lot 56. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5624327.
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|---|---|---|---|
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Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band
| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theodoor Smits | A still life of crabs, oysters, apricots, a roemer, and a pi | $37,713 | Sotheby's, Dec 2003 | |
| Gillis Van Tilborgh | [no title recorded] | Dorotheum, Nov 2020 | ||
| Nicolaes Maes | Portrait of Wigbold Slicher (1627-1718), three-quarter-lengt | Christie's, Dec 2025 | ||
| Herman Saftleven | A Rhenish landscape with numerous vessels moored at a quay, | Christie's, Oct 2018 | ||
| Herman Saftleven | herman saftleven | an extensive mountain landscape with a vi | Sotheby's, May 2019 | ||
| Herman Saftleven | Panoramic Fantasy | Lempertz, Nov 2024 | ||
| Esaias Van De Velde | village landscape with a dovecote and ice skaters on a froze | Sotheby's, Jan 2017 | ||
| Nicolaes Maes | Portrait of Francisco Lopes Suasso | Lempertz, Nov 2022 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.