Inscription in Latin translated as: "To the perpetual memory of Matthew Decker, Baronet, and Theodore Netscher, Gentleman. This pineapple [literally ‘cone of the pine’], deemed worthy of the royal table, grew at Richmond at the cost of the former, and still seems to grow by the art of the latter. H[enry] Watkins set up this inscription, A.D. 1720". Collection of the FitzWilliam Museum, Cambridge. Painting of a pineapple grown in the garden at Richmond Green, Surrey, of Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet, grandfather of the museum’s founder.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Theodorus_Netscher" class="extiw" title="w:en:Theodorus Netscher"><span title="18th century painter from the Northern Netherlands (1661-1728)">Theodorus Netscher</span></a>
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