In Silver Strawberries, a low arrangement of strawberries is set against a vivid blue cloth, their glossed skins clustered in a shallow silver bowl. Beside them, a tall glass vessel coils with faint internal reflections, while a pewter jug rises behind, its swollen body catching and distorting the surrounding colour. Such juxtapositions are characteristic of Willem Dolphyn’s still-life practice. Metal, glass and fruit are chosen less for symbolic charge than for their differing responses to light: the soft bloom of strawberries, the muted sheen of silver and the brittle clarity of glass. The jug shows signs of age and handling, its surface gently abraded, reinforcing Dolphyn’s preference for objects marked by use rather than perfection. The blue cloth acts as a unifying ground, intensifying the reds and silvers while recalling the staged tabletops of Northern European still life.