A similar salver appears in Juan Bautista de Espinosa's Still Life with Silver-gilt Salvers, painted circa 1620, formerly in the Hilmnar Reksten Art Foundation, sold by Christie's in 1992 and now in a private Spanish collection. The Herrera style, the name lent to Spanish silver of this period by the architect of El Escorial, is characterised by its boldness of execution with its emphasis on line rather than ornament. As Charles Oman observed, it is a style that needs to be exevuted in silver-gilt to be most effective.