The textural work on this is insane! That crushed sand background against the metallic can reflections creates such a rich, tactile contrast. Lighting looks so natural in Blender—stellar product visualization, Zander!
I found Anton Seder's Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst (Vienna, 1896) on the Internet Archive, in a public-domain scan by the Getty Research Institute: dragons and sea serpents engraved like a naturalist's specimens and framed in...