Opificio delle Pietre Dure (Florence, about 1680) Fight between a bear and a tiger Salesman in hard and soft stones. Carrara marble, Sicilian red jasper, Corsican green jasper, black and white marble, Brindle of Arno, Belgian black and Volterra Alabaster. Dimensions: 29.5 x 21 x 2 cm Comparative Bibliography: FG Polizzi, “Plus curieux qui beaux”. Coral artifices for Claude-Lamoral I, third prince of Ligne and viceroy of Sicily, in Artificia Siciliae. Sicilian decorative arts in European collecting, edited by MC Di Natale, Skira, Milan, 2016, pp. 165 - 174. To be compared with the clerks present in the architectural Monetiere of the Castle of the Prince of Ligne