Still-life 17th century?
 

Hello . Please help to assess the picture. Oil on canvas , while writing about the late 17th early 18th century. In the lower right corner of the picture is vaguely discernible signature hudozhnika.pervaya letter J. At the bottom of the picture to the left of the vase , clear monogram hu. Nor on the back of the canvas, or on the front there are no extraneous labels or markings . Presumably the picture was taken from East Prussia in 1945.
 The picture has darkened greatly . In the background , a forest or park in the twilight of sunset. The lower part of the vase resembles an inverted bowl and forms a vignette (possibly with the colored inscription). One gets the impression that the lower part of the canvas was cut to 10-15 cm

Strange still life.

Why the lower part of the vase becomes a kind of emptiness?

The artist is clearly third-rate, then you will not find anything, I think ...

Prverte , is there a bottom edge ( of the canvas , nailed to the stretcher ) painting . There is - then cut off .
And what is the size of this natyurmrta at all?
May sign and painted , and perhaps was not for her there.
But , I agree that this vignette by some inscription .

Vase made ​​in the Rococo style and is the earliest to the middle of the XVIII century. And possible later version " neorokoko ", ie from the middle of the XIX century. I think that the picture is part of the so-called " Flower Calendar" - a set of 12 paintings , each of which is devoted to one month of the year . The name of the month indicated in the cartouche (see attachment).

In general, the quality of your photo unimportant , for it is impossible to discern - an oil painting you have prints on canvas or colored lithograph. If the latter , the XVIII century completely eliminated. Take a picture better, the whole picture , makrofoto fragments turnover. I got the impression that the image is cropped from the top, and sides. Or you gave an incomplete picture ?