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The painting shows a still-life with a dish of oysters upon a brazier, an artichoke in a dish resting upon a loaf of bread, together with a cooked capon and a knife, fork and slices of bread on plates and a silver condiment dish upon a table top. Some of the elements of the still-life, such as the salt or condiment dish, with its distinctive sphinx feet, can be found in other still-lifes of the painter.
The subdued tonality and the distinctively low key palette are typical of Flegel's maturity in the late 1620s and 1630s, as is the use of a panel made from copper beech.
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