The Biography of Objects I'nventory °/stiU Life with the tapestry is seen, with a piece of gold Blue Pot y/e/ds, /rom /e/t border at its edge. It might be a tabletop on to r/(7/7t: a heap of flowered tapestry, w/t/? which the arrangement is piled, or it might green, blue, red, and gold patterns woven not: the entire surface is covered, so it is through it, which makes a mound toward the hard to know. But the shape of the tapestry left, disappears behind the still life's objects mound and fall and the bit of contrasting at the center, and reemerges to make a fall gold border at the bottom center together at the right edge of the composition; an suggest the possibility of a curving-backed angular white porcelain pitcher with a faint sofa or armchair, without offering anything blue design at the leftmost part of the definite to confirm that possibility. A glimpse arrangement of objects; the blue pot of the of wall and floor is given at the top and title, made of enameled metal, replete with right side of the composition, replete with a lid and swinging handle, set behind and thin strip to mark the wainscoted division slightly above the pitcher toward the center; of the wall between green-tinged and brown- another metal pot, this one of white enamel, toned areas, and a thicker strip of molding squatter and smaller, but otherwise rather to mark the meeting between wall and floor. like the blue pot with its lid and handle, set Otherwise nothing of or in the room is seen: just below and to the right of it; what appear nothing to say whether it is kitchen, dining to be seven apples, red and gold globes room, nook or cranny, or other living space, encircling the squat white pot and then half- or simply atelier. sinking into the folds of tapestry behind it Many of the same objects are found, and at the right; and finally a piece of white rearranged, within a still life in watercolors of table linen with a red stripe on which the the period (fig. 3) that appears to be an pitcher, white lidded pot, and three of the alternative or companion to Still Life with Blue seven apples sit, and beneath which a bit of Pot. A melon is added to that composition, 9