Wonderful grotesque vase with cut flowers and pheasant, painted in oil on canvas in the 17th century.

Important Italian painting that can be placed in the corpus of works that critics, since 1982 (Paràdeisos 1982, pp. 306-307), have attributed to the name of Maestro del Vaso a Grottesche, referring to those painters active during the seventeenth century, especially in the center and southern Italy, close to the production of the Neapolitan Giacomo Greco.

The painting, although in need of restoration, is in the first canvas and reaches us still perfectly intact.

A work of beautiful pictorial quality and a certain figurative complexity, the ancient canvas was once sewn, a common operation for the great paintings of the time motivated by the need to overcome the size limit of fabrics made with wooden looms, in use until 800.

We therefore note the thickness of the stitching line, also on the pictorial layout, conditions as in the photographs.

Framed within an ancient carved wooden frame with a band of laurel leaves and entirely gilded with pure gold leaf.

Painting dimensions: 94 x 127.5 cm;

Frame dimensions: 114.5 x 148.5 cm.