A still life with silver coffee pot

This enchanting still life includes many of the up-to-date furnishings and accoutrements of aristocratic leisure to be found in a fashionable rococo salon, circa 1730: clay pipes and gaming cards suspended around a finely tooled silver coffee pot; blue and white Chinese export porcelain cups and saucers; and a round, gilt-bronze table with tassles à la Turque; a rich array of ripened fruits completes the setting.

Opperman believes that this panel was painted en suite with The Wolf and the Stork and The Fox and the Crow (lot 39), and suggests the possibility that it was partly worked by Oudry's studio assistants.