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The Still Life Paintings of Willem Claesz Heda
Breakfast with crab (1648)
Still-life with olives (1634)
Still-life with stoneware flagon (1637)
Still-life with goblet (1635)
Breakfast Table with Blackberry Pie (1631)
Still-life with ham and rummer (1651)
Still Life with Pie, Silver Ewer and Crab (1658)
Still-life with pewter-ware (1636)
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Still-life with pewter-ware (1636)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still-life with pewter-ware (1636). A good view of the pewter flagon with spout, of the type favoured on the Continent but not in England. A new feature is the shallow gilded bowl in front of the flagon.

Alongside the lemon on the left is what appears to be a rolled-up cone of printed paper. It would have contained pepper and is an object that appears in many of the paintings that have shellfish as an element in the composition.