Still Life: Fruit and Oysters on a Table

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A still life group comprising of a table top laid with a heavy cloth, which is draped to the right revealing the wooden table to the left. In the middle of the table is a large platter bearing three oysters, a fourth oyster on the table to the right. To the left of the platter is an apple with long leafy stem, a large bunch of grapes behind also with the stem still attached. Next to the apple is a partly peeled lemon, with two prawns laid side by side to the left, near the edge of the table. Behind the platter, to the right, is a glass roemer with raspberry prunts, half full of liquid, a unbroken loaf of bread to the right.
Title

Still Life: Fruit and Oysters on a Table

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 33.6 x W 49.8 cm

Accession number

1979.461

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Edgar and Effie Assheton Bennett, 1979

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed bl: J D D Heem (initials in mon)

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