This still life on a ledge or table consists of grapes on a tazza, a pigeon pie, a silver-gilt cup and cover, mulberries and wild strawberries in porcelain bowls, and an iced pastry decorated with six candy sticks placed round a flower on a stalk. The pastry is probably a wedding ‘cake’ or bruidstaart, the flower may be a variegated pink.16 Pigeon pies were most often depicted in Haarlem still lifes, like those by Pieter Claesz from the late 1620s.17 The bowls are shaped like Kraak porcelain ware, but their decoration is no longer fully visible due to abrasion. According to the label on the frame, the present work has been described as being from the Dutch school circa 1620, and it was described as such in 1903, when first recorded in the museum. It was catalogued as in the style of Osias Beert in the 1976 museum catalogue. Apparently not a copy of an extant still life by Beert, the painting would appear to be by a minor artist working in Beert’s style, probably in Antwerp. Gregory Martin, 2022