Mid-17th-Century Flemish School, Still Life With Grapes & Foliage On A Pewter Platter medium creating a wrapping effect around

creating a wrapping effect around the intrepid rowers

chest of drawers

Painted around 1725

It’s a picture of rural bliss under a Summer sky - yet tinged with the realities of hardship for young working families

A German inscription on the reverse translates as:“Matzdorf

Mid-17th-Century Flemish School, Still Life With Grapes & Foliage On A Pewter Platter medium creating a wrapping effect aroundThis exquisite mid 17th century Flemish oil painting depicts a still life with an abundance of fruit and flora perched atop a pewter plate. Its a decadent array of natures finest. Within every 17th century still life, theres a suggestion of a deeper narrative and its intriguing to consider whether the artist is communicating at a secondary level. Here, the fruit is so bountiful that its overwhelming the platter, as if in a state of unbridled