"""We seem to look down onto a wooden surface, a table or buffet, holding a basket of fruit, a vase of pink and white flowers, a book with a sea-blue, soft cover, and a small tray holding a teacup and saucer and two pieces of fruit like oranges in this horizontal still life painting. The wooden surface is highly polished and has a red tint, like cherry. The oval, rust-red tray holding the teacup and oranges has a lip around the edge. One orange is peeled, and a segment sits near an unpeeled fruit. The empty white teacup has a flaring lip and a delicate gold handle, and the cup and saucer are edged in gold. The tray sits across the corner of the table, close to us, and extends off the table to our left. The thick, soft-bound book is placed beyond the tray, to our right. Behind the tray, a tall, goblet-like, cobalt-blue vase with a pedestal foot holds five flowers, possibly carnations, among green leaves. Two blossoms are cream-white, two are ruby-red, and the fifth flower is streaked with both colors. To our left, a rectangular, woven, wicker basket holds three pears, two apples, and a quince. The pears are blush red, golden yellow, or pale green. One apple is butter yellow and one is red streaked with buttercup yellow. The quince is lemon-lime yellow. A pale-yellow quince and red and yellow apple sit on the table in front of the basket, near the tray. The background is painted a muted sage green. The artist signed and dated the work with dark green paint in the upper right corner: """"Fantin. 1866."""""""
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