Lot 169: Roses, tulips, violets and other flowers in an urn on a stone ledge with a bird's nest

Pieter Faes (Meir 1750-1814 Antwerp)
Roses, tulips, violets and other flowers in an urn on a stone ledge with a bird's nest
signed and dated 'P. Faes 1792' (lower right)
oil on panel
65.6 x 50.8 cm.
with a collector's wax seal on the reverse

Gustav Knaue... (according to a label on reverse).

Christie’s charges a premium to the buyer on the Hammer Price of each lot sold at the following rates: 29.75% of the Hammer Price of each lot up to and including €5,000, plus 23.8% of the Hammer Price between €5,001 and €400,000, plus 14.28% of any amount in excess of €400,000. Buyer’s premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.
Another version by Faes was with Christie's, New York, 31 January 1997, lot 1, as Jan van Os.

We are grateful to Mr Fred Meijer of the RKD, The Hague, for his help in cataloguing this lot.