Jan Fyt trained and worked prolifically as an animal painter in his native Antwerp, a major commercial center where he cultivated connections to distinguished collectors. This decorative still life demonstrates his superior talent for depicting variations in texture, from the gossamer feathers of the partridge to the bristles of the hare’s fur. Fyt also included lemons imported from the Mediterranean and a blue-and-white Chinese porcelain bowl, exported in large quantities from the kilns of Jingdezhen in the seventeenth century. Porcelain, a technical mystery to Europeans, became a prized commodity and symbol of contact with far-flung regions of the globe.
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