SAM Banquet Still Life Magnet

$8.95 at Seattle Art Museum.

Wrapped magnet with image of Banquet Still Life, by artist Abraham van Beyeren (Dutch, ca. 1653-1655). Includes card with artist information and cellophane wrap. This still life is filled with depictions of the riches enjoyed by seventeenth-century Holland at the height of its dominance of world trade: Chinese export ware, imported fruits, Venetian-style glassware, Dutch silver and a nautilus shell in a gilt mount. Dutch consumers reveled in these earthly pleasures, but would have recognized a cautionary tone…