Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder

Still life of striped tulips, roses, a French marigold, blue columbines, a poppy anemone, an iris and other flowers in a globular glass vase with butterflies

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Property from a Private Collection

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder

Antwerp 1573–1621 The Hague

Still life of striped tulips, roses, a French marigold, blue columbines, a poppy anemone, an iris and other flowers in a globular glass vase with butterflies

signed with monogram lower left: AB; and also signed in ink on the reverse of the copper plate: Ambrosius Bosschaert

oil on copper

28.2 x 18.2 cm.; 11⅛ x 7⅛ in.

Private collection, Germany, by 1960;

With Alfred Brod, London, 1970;

Private collection, Wiesbaden (probably acquired from the above);

Thence by descent to the present owner.

L.J. Bol, The Bosschaert Dynasty, Leigh-on-Sea 1960, p. 63, no. 25, reproduced pl. 18a.