Golden metal vase with flowers and parrot

Andrea Scacciati Florentine painter after an initial apprenticeship with Mario Balassi, he moved to the atelier of Maestro Lorenzo Lippi “; this persuaded him to paint flowers, fruits and animals, to which things his genius tended, and he succeeded with such excellence that he served the royal house in Tuscany and in Livorno many English gentlemen, ... "[FMN Gabburri, Painters' Lives 1719- 1741, Florence, ms. Palatine Hill EB9.5, Vol. I]. An opulent bunch of flowers with different botanical varieties and chromatic shades (typical of the artist's production) emerges from a metallic golden vase, resting on a rocky shore; a balanced, refined and harmonious composition. On the left, poggiat