Title: A still life of flowers with a parrot perched on a basket with seashells, mushrooms and two quail, on a rocky edge

Artist: Johann Martin Metz 
(Bonn 1717 – 1790 Cologne)

Material: Oil on canvas

Measurement: 119 cm (high), 91.4 cm (wide)

Signed, inscribed and dated: J. Metz pinx / 1769

Provenance:
 Frost & Reed Galleryl, London

Christie’s London, 06/07/1984, lot 82

Hahn Fine Art Dealers, London
purchased from the above 11/06/1986, New York