On a large mauve-pink table with blue reflections, the edge of which runs the length of the canvas, declining slightly to the right, the elements of the still life are placed almost equidistantly in a circle. From left to right, in the foreground, a blue napkin, a white wooden strawberry basket with a blue handle placed at an angle, a bright lemon, a round, transparent glass bowl with a few sugared  strawberries, and, in the background, a barely sketched-out empty plate, a small bouquet of orange roses in a brown pitcher and a Napoleon III sugar bowl made of white porcelain with orange-pink highlights, which is in dialogue with the strawberry basket and titles the canvas. A brown and blue background completes the back of the table and brings out the light and shadow atmosphere of the painting.

Each object, with its own shape, specific colours, degree of finish and luminosity, writes a stanza of shimmering pictorial poetry that we read over and over again, perhaps like a dance of the past, an evocation of childhood fruit.