Still life with goldfish bowl, melon, peaches and roses – Vintage Print
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Description
Still life with goldfish bowl, melon, peaches and roses comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Still life with goldfish bowl, melon, peaches and roses
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Set apart from the other fish pictures on this board, this still life pairs a glass goldfish bowl with a melon, peaches, and roses, so the fish becomes one luxury object among many. Goldfish were prized in East Asia for centuries before reaching Europe, where they became ornamental curiosities, and placing one beside ripe fruit and cut flowers suggests a taste for sensory pleasure and abundance. Still lifes like this were often read on more than one level, since fruit and blossoms also remind viewers how quickly such beauty fades. The water and glass are worth a close look, because painters of this kind often showed their greatest skill in how they handled light passing through them.
| Original scan | 9,380 × 7,625 px · prints to 31 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 12 |
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