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The picture shows a vanitas still-life with a crystal ball reflecting an image of the artist at his easel, a book, a lute, a flag, a chipped roemer, a flute, a baton, an hourglass, an open book showing a view of Antwerp, an engraved portrait of King Charles i, and a charter with a seal on a partially draped table before a pillar.
The painter is best known for his vanitas still-lifes and landscape paintings. In the present still-life he included a self-portrait, reflected prominently in the orb, at almost the centre of the composition.
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