Flowers, shells and insects on a stone ledge

Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg ?1593/4-1657 Delft) Flowers, shells and insects on a stone ledge signed 'B. van der. Ast..' (lower left) oil on panel 9 3/8 x 13 5/8 in. (23.8 x 34.5 cm.) In an early seventeenth-century, figured, ebony, cassetta frame (supplied by Wiggins, ref. 11053).