N.R.A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketje, Amsterdam 1945, cat. no. 17;
I. Bergström, Studier i Holländisdkt Stillebenmaler under 1600-Talet , Göteborg 1947, p. 120f, reproduced fig. 100;
I. Bergström, Dutch Still Life Painting in the Seventeenth Century , London 1956, p. 114, reproduced fig. 100;
M. Millner Kahr, Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century , New York 1978, p. 196;
H. Bauer, Holländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts , Munich 1979, pp. 84, 87, reproduced p. 85;
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as Intimated by the Painters of the 'Monochrome Banketje,' Schiedam 1980, vol. II, p. 16, cat. no. 39, reproduced;
B. Haak, Hollandse Schilders in de Gouden Eeuw , Amsterdam 1984/ Das Goldene Zeitalter der Höllandische Malerei , Cologne 1984/ The Golden Age: Dutch Painters of the 17 th Century , New York 1984, p. 247, reproduced fig. 517;
P. Lorenzelli, Orbis pictus: Natura Morta in Germania, Olanda, Fiandre, XVI-XVIII Secolo , exhibition catalogue, Bergamo 1986, p. 135, reproduced fig. 61;
S. Segal, A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands 1600-1700 , exhibition catalogue, pp. 121 and 215, note 5;
E. Gemar-Koeltzsch, Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhunderts , Lingen 1995, vol. II, p. 227, no. 76/1, reproduced;
A.W. Lowenthal, "Pieter Claesz.," The Dictionary of Art , London and New York 1996, vol. VII, p. 369;
M. Brunner-Bulst, Pieter Claesz. Der Hauptmeister des Haarlemer Stillebens im 17. Jahrhundert, Lingen 2004, pp. 8, 137-138, 206, cat. no. 1, reproduced in color p. 9;
P. Biesboer, ed., Pieter Claesz. Master of Haarlem Still Life, exhibition catalogue, Zwolle 2004, pp. 16, 37-38, 114, cat. no. 1, reproduced in color (detail) pp. 8 - 9, 13.