17th Century Dutch Inspiration

As Easter rushes towards us,
the department is filling up with a range of extravagant tableau,
as we prepare for the examinations.
Just as well, because the mist and rain rolled in today and I wasn't venturing out.

For those curious about the title reference;
In the 1650s and 1660s, when Amsterdam became the social, political, and financial capital of the Netherlands, still-life painters such as van Beyeren and Willem Kalf produced fancy pronk (display) still lifes featuring imported fruits and expensive objects such as Chinese porcelain, Venetian glassware, and silver-gilt cups and trays, usually rendered in glistening light and a velvety atmosphere
In earlier decades, pictures of dead game had been more at home in the Spanish Netherlands, where Frans Snyders and his follower Jan Fyt turned images of unfortunate fowl, hares, deer, and other animals into essays in color and texture, and into testaments of life lived comfortably on sprawling estates.