Is that a marmalade box?

[ppfuf]

There's a renaissance still-life of a table with a bunch of banqueting stuff, and what looks like an open marmalade box in the bottom right corner.
Go here, http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/f/flegel/index.html and scroll all the way down to Still-life with Parrot (George Flegel b1566-d1638), and there's a round-ish box that looks like it's filled with jelly.
Hmm, those red boxes behind the parrot might be trencher boxes.

Comments

[vittoriosa.livejournal.com]

brilliant. can't you find those little boxes for like $3 at craft stores? (much as i'd like to be green & recycle brie boxes, i doubt we want cheesey flora mixing in with our fruit preserves :-)

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I think I'd want to put a layer of parchment paper down before using something from the Craft store for food. But I'll definitely look for something like this next time I'm in one.