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The painting itself, now known as Emblematic still life with flagon ... More so, the work bears the hallmarks of 17th-century Dutch painting—and perhaps even surpasses them.

Thus, still-life painters developed a code behind their compositions that would carry messages of religious piety and strive for spiritual perfection. Many symbols used in Dutch still-life ...

32 x 25.8 cm. (12.6 x 10.2 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Bernhard Maaz, the director general of the Bavarian State Painting Collections ... The show of the 17th- and 18th-century Dutch still-life painter moves on to Boston and Toledo this year.