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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.
