Beschrijving: Vanitas stilleven met hemelglobe en bijbel
On a brown drop-leaf table the following items can be seen from left to right: at the front a small dead bird, an open book, a walnut, a dead blacktail godwit, another open book and a leather-bound bible with two brass locks, a strip of paper with the words `Verganckelijkheijt van alles' (transiency of all things) protruding from it; behind them a pottery oil-lamp with a double spout and smoking wick, a celestial globe showing the constellations of Taurus, Scorpio, Ares, Leo and Libra; there are also a deep-purple banner, a pike, a drum and a stick (?). Grey-green background. On the lefthand page of the open parchment-bound book is a six-line poem with the opening words `Vertroost U met Godt ...' (be comforted by God) and the name of the painter, `Petrus Schotanus'. There is another text on the righthand page. A piece of paper with the word `Vertroosting' (consolations) protrudes from this book. The page of the parchment-bound book on the right bears a text of four lines and the caption `Alle Dinck Verslijt met den tijt' (everything passes in time).