Stilleven met nautilus op theekist (Still Life with Nautilus on a Tea Chest)

On a teal crate stamped THEE parade a blue funnel, a red-striped and a tall cream coffee pot, a yellow tin, a blue enamel bowl and two brass whistles, with a nautilus shell propped at the front. The shell, once mounted in gold as the star of a pronkstilleven, sits among party whistles and kitchen tin. Four centuries of status, flattened into one warm shelf.