JAN VAN KESSEL - Banketje — De Jonckheere Gallery
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JAN VAN KESSEL – Banketje

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“Le Bleu des Mers », 23 November 2017 – 25 February 2018, Fondation BAUT, Geneva

 

JAN VAN KESSEL
Banketje’ with ‘kraak’ china bowls, containing raspberries and brambles, flowers in a bronze vase, chaffinch and butterfly

 

Loaning seven still lifes, we were honored to take part of this marvelous exhibition hosted in the Fondation Baur in Geneva which raced the enthralling adventures of the Portuguese and Dutch explorers who ranged the seas in their search for spices and returned with a corner of their holds kept aside for a novelty, Chinese blue and white porcelain produced during the Ming dynasty (1368—1644).