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| Keywords: Isaak Soreau - Still Life with Chinese Bowl and Vase of Flowers - Walters 371902.jpg Soreau the son of an Antwerp painter in Frankfurt specialized in table-top still lifes featuring fruits flowers and insects depicted in ways that appeal to the senses For example the sheen on the grapes and color of the mulberries suggest their flavor while the delicacy of the Chinese porcelain bowl paired with the glass beaker with tulips lilies of the valley and other flowers appeals to sight and touch Porcelains made during the reign of the Chinese emperor Wan Li 1572-1619 -the same type bowl as on the bracket above-were appreciated as marvels of Chinese ingenuity However the bulbs that produced the tulips at the right were more valuable Introduced from Turkey a few decades earlier tulips especially striped ones could in these years cost as much a farm between 1635 1638 Baroque oil on panel cm 48 8 64 9 accession number 37 1902 8100 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 place of origin Frankfurt Germany Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Isaak Soreau Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Porcelain tableware in art | ||||
