Still Life Portrait Cat and Fruit, 19thc German Oil Painting Signed antique wax seal silver Raised on four gilt bronze

Raised on four gilt bronze feet richly decorated in stylized foliate

Heliotropium: Necessite fait loi - Necessity Has No Laws / Necessity is law

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Featuring a charming motif of hazelnuts

including 32 rectangular game tokens

Still Life Portrait Cat and Fruit, 19thc German Oil Painting Signed antique wax seal silver Raised on four gilt bronzeLate 19th century German still life oil painting on canvas. A charming table scape with a blue and white ewer displaying a poppy flower and wheatgrass, a porcelain box opened to reveal sugar cubes and table knife, a silver dish displaying an orange and grapes. A black and white kitten is seen peering into the silver dish curiously observing a fly. Note the subtle reflection of the cat's pink nose of the surface of the dish. Signed lower left. Dated 9