Still life with a gilded beer tankard

Still life with a gilded beer tankard shows a carefully arranged still life on a dark tabletop against a muted gradient background. A tall glass goblet rests on a dark, textured support in the center, while to the right a gilded copper beer tankard with its lid raised stands beside a small, engraved silver vessel; a curved ribbon-like strip and a few small objects lie on a plate in the foreground. The scene is rendered with meticulous attention to reflective surfaces, using a restrained palette of browns, greens, and golds to convey quiet realism typical of Heda’s Dutch Golden Age still lifes.