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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 267282, member: 2844&quot;][USER=90]@Walter Del Pellegrino[/USER] , I realize this thread dates from 2014 and you may already have this information.</p><p>According to Dutch sources, the first European flower still life was painted by Jacob de Ghein II in 1606. It was commissioned for the princely sum of 600 guilders by the Dutch Staten-Generaal (parliament), to be given to Maria de&#039; Medici. This painting was destroyed, I don&#039;t know where, how, or when.</p><p>The Dutch tulip vase was based on 12th century Middle Eastern finger vases, according to this site (sorry, in Dutch):</p><p><a href="http://kunst-en-cultuur.infonu.nl/diversen/35784-de-tulpenvaas-van-eenzame-hoogte-naar-massaproduct.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://kunst-en-cultuur.infonu.nl/diversen/35784-de-tulpenvaas-van-eenzame-hoogte-naar-massaproduct.html" rel="nofollow">http://kunst-en-cultuur.infonu.nl/diversen/35784-de-tulpenvaas-van-eenzame-hoogte-naar-massaproduct.html</a></p><p>The Middle East was not Ottoman at the time, the Ottoman invasion of the Middle East started in the 16th century. The seat of the Ottoman Empire was of course in Asia Minor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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