Still Life with a Pewter Flagon and Two Ming Bowls, Jan Jansz Treck.
Faded, but still beautiful.
The bowls are an odd color because the artist used a type of smalt (cobalt glass) blue that was not lightfast.
In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom icons to right of the image.
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