Set the Scene: The Harvesters

We’ve taken one of our favorite paintings, The Harvesters by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and designed a charming compote to set the scene for your Autumnal gatherings. Alongside our copper pitcher, rust-colored taper candles, and Italian pear candle, the signature Bruegel Harvest Compote shines. Awash in the golden Autumn light, this quartet of goods is akin to a still life painting.

Painted in 1565, Bruegel depicts an afternoon wheat harvest in Belgium. The late afternoon sunshine creates a dramatic play between light and dark, suggesting a long day spent in the fields. Peasants relax under a tree with bread and pears and drink. The painting represents a larger shift in Western Art- a moment at which the religious pretext for landscape painting has been suppressed in favor of a new humanism, and Bruegel's unidealized presentation of the local scene is based on natural observation.

Our take on this scene features wheat, lavender, coneflower heads, yellow babu, bleached palms, dark brown bunny tails, billy buttons, peppergrass, bleached ball fruit, a pinecone and and striped bellani nut. It is an elegant take on that most laborious task of harvesting the crop; consider it as a centerpiece to your Thanksgiving feast. Alongside our copper pitcher, a couple of tapers and a pear candle, you will have instantly created an ode to 16th century farming life.

Autumn 2020