Still life with oysters, a rummer, a lemon and a silver bowl

The still life presents a quiet arrangement on a dark table: oysters on a plate to the left, a large greenish rummer on a beaded stem in the center, a silver dish angled upright to the right, and a lemon resting on a secondary plate with a curling ribbon. A subdued palette of browns, grays, and metallic greens, with careful reflections on glass and metal, gives the scene a cool, luminous quality. The work exemplifies Willem Claesz. Heda’s meticulous Dutch seventeenth-century still-life style, with precise rendering of texture, balanced composition, and restrained, contemplative mood.