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This still-life depicts a glass vase with flowers that has just toppled over on a stone ledge. The blooms - including two variegated tulips, narcissus, columbine, lily-of-the-valley, a carnation and a rose - are strewn on the ledge with the carnation and one of the tulips seeming to burst out of the picture plane. Droplets of water spill over the side at centre while a lizard rises up on its hind legs hoping to make a meal of a small moth that has alighted on the overturned vase. All this gives a vivid sense of immediacy, as if the viewer has just witnessed the mishap.
The painting is signed and dated lower right: J. Marrell. f/1669.
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