# Still-Life with Chinese Porcelain Bowl [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [KALF, Willem]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 64 x 53 cm ## Commentary This still-life depicts a marble tabletop with Herat carpet, sporting fruit, Venetian wine glass, and Northern rum glass. There is also a covered Huan-Li porcelain sugar bowl. Willem Kalf spent a few years in Paris as a young artist. There, he encountered new tendencies in still-life painting and absorbed them in his own work. Shortly after his return to Holland, he developed his own personal style of painting, rich still-lifes of luxury items - silver cups and dishes, Chinese porcelain vessels and elaborate Venetian-style wine glasses - mysteriously lit, displayed before a dark background, and often placed on an eastern tablecloth. Despite the high quality and luxury status of the objects he rendered, the compositions of those still-lifes are often restricted in their opulence. Kalf would concentrate on a few items per painting, which he would render to their best advantage - perfectly arranged and dramatically lit. More often than not, his lighting had the effect of modern spotlights. ## Related artworks - [Interior of a Kitchen]() - [Pronk Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life with a Late Ming Ginger Jar]() - [Still-Life with a Nautilus Cup \(detail\)]() - [Still-Life with a Nautilus Cup]() - [Still-Life with an Aquamanile, Fruit, and a Nautilus Cup]() - [Still-Life with Drinking-Horn]() - [Still-Life with Fruit, Glassware, and a Wanli Bowl]() - [Still-Life with Glass Goblet and Fruit]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()