A nautilus cup, a pickled herring and a fillet on a pewter plate with a fly, onions and leeks, cloves in a pewter cup, a roemer, a crystal-handled knife and olives on a pewter plate on a box, on a partly draped marble shelf

The silver mounted nautilus cup, in the manner of the Dutch silversmith Adam van Vianen (1576-1627), would appear to have been used by van Aelst in a similar composition, in the Staatliches Museum, Schwerin (see H.-U. Mette, Der Nautiluspokal, Munich, 1995, p. 173, fig. 165). The figure stem to the latter version is virtually identical, although the nautilus shell is painted with a handle.