AN UNUSUAL 'CAPE OF GOOD HOPE' PLATE decorated en grisaille and gilt with the well-known view of two ships of the Dutch fleet lying off the cape, one three-master drawn lengthwide and another sailing her way inshore, the background with Table Mountain flanked by Signal Hill and Lion's Head, the iron-red, white and blue flags of Holland disporting from the ships and Lion's Head, the rim with a border of foliate scrolls and strapwork issuing from scalework cartouches and leaf-filled cornucopias (small rim chips), circa 1740

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AN UNUSUAL 'CAPE OF GOOD HOPE' PLATE decorated en grisaille and gilt with the well-known view of two ships of the Dutch fleet lying off the cape, one three-master drawn lengthwide and another sailing her way inshore, the background with Table Mountain flanked by Signal Hill and Lion's Head, the iron-red, white and blue flags of Holland disporting from the ships and Lion's Head, the rim with a border of foliate scrolls and strapwork issuing from scalework cartouches and leaf-filled cornucopias (small rim chips), circa 1740
22.7cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Similar examples are illustrated by Woodward in Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good hope, pp. 131-140, pl. 157 and Hervouet and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des indes, pp. 38-39, pl. 2-6.

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