Stilleven met blikken en vogeltjes (Still Life with Tins and Little Birds)

On a worn red crate gathers a crowd of brocante, parrot-stamped tins of Ciré Laque Royale, a green THEE flask, a Sunlight soap box, a pink glass shaker and a little yellow toy duck, with two small painted birds perched among them. Wiedijk gives this twentieth-century clutter the precise attention the Golden Age once spent on silver. Humble kitchen things, lined up and quietly ennobled.