Juan van der Hamen was the main still life painter in the court during the early decades of the seventeenth century. In 1627, he signed this still life in which he combines fruit, flowers and vessels on different planes. The work is a masterful mixture of his taste for an unhurried, detailed and individualized depiction of objects —in keeping with the beginnings of this genre in Spain— and a clever composition that makes this one of the most elegant still lifes of its time. The shapes, highlights and textures of the earthenware and glass vessels define the composition and emphasize its overall richness and delicacy. In the artist's career, this work marks a perfect equilibrium between the compositional sobriety of his first still lifes and the colorful crowdedness of his later works.