A white teapot sits prominently on the right side of a wooden table, surrounded by a cluster of round, orange fruit. A plate holding four pieces of fruit is placed at the front left, its edge partly covered by the richly colored fabric, which features swirling red, green, and ochre forms outlined in black. Two more pieces of fruit rest directly on the bare wood, one beside the teapot and another near the knife that lies diagonally across the table's corner.

The cloth is draped in elaborate folds, its heavy pattern contrasting with the smooth, pale surfaces of the crockery and the vibrant, spherical fruit. The background is a patchwork of green-grey and muted blue brushstrokes, applied in broad, visible strokes that create a sense of depth without defining any specific space. The paint is applied in thick, textured strokes, especially in the background and cloth, where the brushwork is energetic and layered.

The table's legs and top are depicted at slightly different angles, creating a subtle sense of shifting perspective. Still Life with Teapot was created by Paul Cézanne between 1902 and 1906, towards the end of his life. The subject brings together fruit, crockery, and a knife, arranged on a table draped with a patterned cloth, a motif that recurs throughout Cézanne’s still-life paintings. According to the museum, the fruit in this work has been described as peaches, though earlier critics have debated their exact type, focusing instead on their form and color.

By 1920, the painting was owned by the Paris art firm Bernheim-Jeune and was purchased that year by Gwendoline Davies, who later bequeathed it to the National Museum Wales in 1952. In his later works such as this, Cézanne developed complex relationships between shapes, colors, and textures, moving away from the more separated arrangements of his earlier still lifes. The painting’s arrangement and perspective reflect Cézanne’s late-career interest in viewing each object individually, resulting in slight shifts in the depiction of space and form.