New The Met Store Peeters Bouquet of Flowers Pot Holder and Oven Mitt Set

Artful gifts for the home inspired by The Met collection.

This pretty set for the home, including a pot holder and an oven mitt, celebrates an ambitious arrangement by the remarkable Clara Peeters (Flemish, 1587–after 1636). Housed at The Met, A Bouquet of Flowers (ca. 1612) showcases the artist’s keen eye for detail—in the way of reflective dewdrops, little insect bites, and drooping petals evocative of transience and decay—and reveals the connection between botanical illustration and still-life painting, both of which became popular during the Scientific Revolution. Peeters was a founding figure in the history of the European still life, an especially attractive genre to women artists, who weren’t permitted to study nude models.