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BARTOLOMEO BIMBI (SETTIGNANO 1648-1729 FLORENCE)
Still life with apples and pears on a silver charger, quinces, cauliflower, and flowers in a silver-gilt ewer, on a draped table; and Still life with pomegranates, pears, bush apples, citron, white figs, grapes, black figs in a porcelain bowl, and a bouquet of flowers in a porcelain vase
oil on canvas
39 x 5714 in. (99.1 x 145.4 cm.); 39 x 5712 in. (99.1 x 146 cm.)
a pair
Provenance
Nicolini collection, Florence.
Conte Cesnola, Florence.
[By Order of a Family Trust]; Christie's, London, 6 April 1984, lot 46, where acquired by the uncle of the present owner.
Literature
L. Salerno, La natura morta italiana, 1560-1805 / Still life painting in Italy, 1560-1805, Rome, 1984, pp. 292, 296, fig. 83.5 and 83.8.
S. Meloni Trkulja and L. Tongiorgi Tomasi, Bartolomeo Bimbi: Un pittore di piante e animali alla corte dei Medici, Florence, 1998, pp. 138-139, nos. 72 and 73.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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