_Pieter Snyers_ (Flemish: 1681-1752).
A painter of fruit and flower pieces, landscapes, portraits,
and figure subjects of low life; was Director of the Royal
Academy of Antwerp.
Fowls, cray-fish, artichokes, lobsters, peaches, plums, strawberries,
asparagus, radishes, and peonies--"all represented of natural size
and distributed in picturesque confusion." The artist's signature is
included, as if embroidered on the corner of the tablecloth.