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| Title | Still LIfe: Fruit, Oyster and Glasses | |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): The Burrell Collection | |
| Artist | After Kalf, Willem (Dutch painter, 1619-1693) Previously attributed to Kalf, Willem (Dutch painter, 1619-1693) |
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| Date Earliest | possibly about 1660 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1900 | |
| Description | On a partially draped tabletop (from left to right), a slice of lemon, a bread roll, an oyster, a roemer wine glass, a tall flute of wine, a Chinese-style porcelain bowl containing several oranges, and a partially peeled lemon, the skin of which coils down over the edge of the bowl. | |
| Current Accession Number | 35.294 | |
| Former Accession Number | 64 | |
| Subject | still life | |
| Measurements | 53.3 x 41.9 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Sir William and Lady Burrell 1944. | |
| Provenance | Probably acquired by Sir William Burrell (1861-1958) before 1911. | |
| Publications | Wright, C. (ed.), Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century: Images of a Golden Age in British Collections, Birmingham, 1989, p. 188, Dutch, ‘by a feeble follower of Willem Kalf'; Lloyd Williams, J., Dutch Art in Scotland, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Scotland), Edinburgh, 1992, p. 160. | |
| Notes | W. Liedtke 2003 (oral communication): 'definitely a copy'. | |
| Rights Owner | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) | |
| Author | Robert Wenley | |