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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 546524, member: 2844"]I knew it had a Dutch look. That cup looks so much like a Dutch nautilus cup, which it is in the original. There is the top quality Chinese porcelain which the Dutch had access to. And of course that much later watch looked out of place, it was originally a valuable lemon from the east. The glass goblet could be Venetian.</p><p>We call this a Vanitas painting, depicting the fleeting and emptiness of earthly life. The more austere ones have skulls and decaying fruit. The message is that even earthly riches are of no value in eternity.</p><p>The Vanitas concept didn't stop the Dutch, particularly the Hollanders, from gathering ever more riches, the greedy so-and-so's.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some more of Kalf's still life paintings, and background info:</p><p><a href="http://www.all-art.org/baroque/kalf1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.all-art.org/baroque/kalf1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.all-art.org/baroque/kalf1.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 546524, member: 2844"]I knew it had a Dutch look. That cup looks so much like a Dutch nautilus cup, which it is in the original. There is the top quality Chinese porcelain which the Dutch had access to. And of course that much later watch looked out of place, it was originally a valuable lemon from the east. The glass goblet could be Venetian. We call this a Vanitas painting, depicting the fleeting and emptiness of earthly life. The more austere ones have skulls and decaying fruit. The message is that even earthly riches are of no value in eternity. The Vanitas concept didn't stop the Dutch, particularly the Hollanders, from gathering ever more riches, the greedy so-and-so's.;) Here are some more of Kalf's still life paintings, and background info: [URL]http://www.all-art.org/baroque/kalf1.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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