# Serving Table [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HAMEN, Juan van der]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 67 x 104 cm ## Commentary This signed and dated canvas depicts a serving table with plates of sweets, olives and cheese, a glass vessel of water, and a terracotta jar. In this still-life, the painter subtly manipulated a series of forms \(edibles and utensils\) all derived from primary geometric shapes \(circles, spheres and cylinders\) and played these against the reticular articulation of the tablecloth and the receding rectangular tabletop. Tabletop still-lifes were produced by such early seventeenth century Northern artists as <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/gillis/laidtabl.html'\)" href="/html/g/gillis/laidtabl.html">Nicolaes Gillis,</a> <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/dijck/cheeses.html'\)" href="/html/d/dijck/cheeses.html">Floris van Dyck</a> and <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/peeters/stillife.html'\)" href="/html/p/peeters/stillife.html">Clara Peeters.</a> Van der Hamen was beginning to make table-top still-lifes at the end of his life. ## Related artworks - [Offering to Flora]() - [Serving Table]() - [Still-Life of Glass, Pottery, and Sweets]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still Life with a Puppy]() - [Still-Life with Crockery and Cakes]() - [Still Life with Flowers and a Dog]() - [Still Life with Flowers, Artichokes, Cherries and Glassware]() - [Still-Life with Fruit and Glassware]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()