Glasses in a Basket is a 1644 Baroque still life painting by the Alsatian artist Sebastian Stoskopff.

[2][1] The painting is representative for the new phase in Stoskopff's work, after he had settled again in his hometown after many years in Paris and demonstrated the extent of his art in his masterpiece from 1641, The Great Vanity.

These paintings were highly praised and sought after by collectors; Cardinal Richelieu himself owned one, although it is not known if it was MBA 1281.

[1][3] Still lifes depicting glassware had been pioneered by the painter Georg Flegel, but Stoskopff perfected the genre by concentrating essentially on the transparency and translucency.

The broken glass alludes to the frailty of existence and serves as a Memento mori.