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Aparece representado Cristo, a la derecha, con un manto de lapislázuli y un vestido de jaspe rojo, arrodillado delante del ángel, que está rodeado por una nube de amatista, mientras que los tres apóstoles se sitúan a la izquierda, delante de un huerto en plasma de esmeralda. A principios del siglo XVII se fabricó en la Galleria del Lavori del gran duque de Toscana una serie de placas, conservadas
Commissioned by Pedro Tellez Girón, Duke of Osuna and Viceroy of Sicily (1574-1624). The German artist Jacopo di Gian Flasch made the Duke’s coat of arms, and Jacopo Ligozzi, the designer of the Florentine Grand-ducal hardstone workshops, the flower-filled vases.
This tabletop has a decoration of floral motifs, insects and birds typical of Florentine manufacture of the early seventeenth century, in contrast to the earlier more geometrical style. This new approach was based on designs by Jacopo Ligozzi, court painter to the Grand Duke Francesco II de’ Medici. Innocenzo Massimo gave this tabletop to Philip IV when he was bishop of Catania.
