Although ascribed improbably on an old label on the back to 'Ch. Peyteling' (presumably Christoffel Puytlinck (1640-after 1671), the dead game painter), this unpublished painting closely resembles Clara Peeters's tabletop still lifes; compare especially the pictures in a German private collection and the Carter Collection in Los Angeles that Pamela Hibbs Decoteau has dated to the 1620's (see P.H. Decoteau, Clara Peeters, 1594-ca.1640, and the Development of Still Life Painting in Northern Europe, 1992, pp. 34-5, 180-1, respectively plates VIII and IX). During these years Peeters's art could be deceptively close to that of Pieter Claesz (compare, for example, the ontbijtje signed and dated 1628 in a Dutch private collection; see N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the painters of the "Monochrome Banketje", 1980, II, p. 18, no. 53; I, p. 41, fig. 47), who not only shares the same initials but also the same motifs.