In a room open to a landscape is a table with various foodstuffs, along with metalwork, dishes and even a pipe. The placement of numerous objects on a broad wooden surface is customary in works by Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606-1683/1684), to whom this work was first attributed. It had previously been considered the work of Benedetti through comparison with his other still lifes. The casual aspect offered by the arrangement of the elements is customary in mid-seventeenth-century Flemish and Dutch still lifes, but here it has been interpreted as symbolic. The oysters, for example, allude to the sin of lust, in contrast to the nearby grapes, which are a traditional Christian symbol. The pipe has also been interpreted as a symbol of hedonist abandonment to pleasures and vices, a criticism of the custom of smoking, which was very much in fashion in the North. This work was first listed in 1746 in Queen Isabel de Farnesio's collection at La Granja Palace.