The subject of the painting is a table draped loosely with a patterned cloth on which lie fruit, crockery and a knife.

In the 1880s he changed the structure of his compositions and his approach to the subject, developing more elaborate counterpoints between shape, colour and textures.

[1] The strong colours of the vessels, fruit and cloth are set against a washed-out green-grey background.

It was purchased in 1920 by Welsh philanthrapist Gwendoline Davies for the sum of £2,000, and is described by the National Museum Wales as one of her finest acquisitions.

[3] When Davies died in 1952 she bequested her collection of art work to the National Museum of Wales, among them Still Life with Teapot.