Frans Snijders, Still Life with Fruit, Porcelain and a Squirrel,  oil on copper, 1616,  Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Frans Snijders, Still Life with Fruit, Porcelain and a Squirrel, detail, oil on copper, 1616, Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

These strawberries in a Chinese porcelain bowl are painted on copper, which makes it look so bright it almost seems like the bowl is real porcelain, reflecting the light of the room.

On show in the exhibition Asia - Amsterdam at Rijksmuseum until 17th January