Larder with a draped table laden with game, a lobster, vegetables and fruit in a basket, and kraak porcelain, with a parrot and two hounds

This large larder composition of around 1650, now in the Phoebus Foundation, presents one of Snyders's most deliberately opulent assemblages: game, a lobster, vegetables, fruit in a basket, and kraak porcelain, alongside a parrot and two hounds. The inclusion of kraak porcelain — the Chinese blue-and-white export ware that reached Europe through Portuguese and Dutch East India Company trade — signals explicitly global luxury. The parrot, an exotic bird associated with tropical regions and aristocratic menageries, reinforces this cosmopolitan display. The hounds alert to the food create narrative tension within the otherwise static still life. By assembling objects from different continents in a single larder scene, Snyders creates a visual map of the world's luxury goods flowing into an affluent Flemish household. The Phoebus Foundation in Antwerp, which collects and shares important Flemish Baroque works, holds this as a centrepiece example of Snyders's late-career production.

The kraak porcelain introduces a distinctive material — hard, white, with painted blue decoration — into Snyders's usual palette of organic textures. The challenge of rendering glazed ceramic is met through careful tonal gradation on the smooth curved surface and the sharp precision of the blue painted decoration. The parrot's exotic plumage requires differentiated handling from all the northern European birds Snyders usually depicted.