Lot 101: ANDREA  SCACCIATI

FLORENCE  1642  -  1710
A  STILL  LIFE  OF  FLOWERS  IN  A  BLUE-AND-WHITE  PORCELAIN  BOWL,  RESTING  ON  A  STONE  LEDGE
oil  on  canvas,  unlined
53.5  by  72.5  cm.;  21  1/8    by  28  1/2    in.

Commissioned from the artist (as one of a set of six still lifes) in 1683 by Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, for the Medici villa at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, and recorded in a 1691 inventory there. (The painting probably left the Medici collections shortly afterwards, in the early 18th century).