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Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bowl
Also titled Stilleven met zilveren kan en porseleinen kom
Willem Kalf (Rotterdam, 1619–1693)
1655 - 1660
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 73.8 cm x width 65.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Willem Kalf did not paint the most common type of Asian objects circulating in the Dutch Republic, but generally chose rare examples that were already decades old. Sometimes he combined elements from various objects. For example, the decoration on the inside of this bowl is typical of klapmutsen (bowls with a flat rim) from earlier in the century, while the decoration on the outside is based on a contemporary piece of porcelain.
