AN UNUSUAL 'CAPE OF GOOD HOPE' PLATE enamelled en grisaille and gilt with the well-known view of two ships of the Dutch fleet lying off the cape, one three-master drawn broadside and another under way on the port tack, the distance with Table Mountain flanked by Signal Hill and Lion's Head, the iro-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 (cracked, rim chips), circa 1740

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AN UNUSUAL 'CAPE OF GOOD HOPE' PLATE enamelled en grisaille and gilt with the well-known view of two ships of the Dutch fleet lying off the cape, one three-master drawn broadside and another under way on the port tack, the distance with Table Mountain flanked by Signal Hill and Lion's Head, the iro-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 (cracked, rim chips), circa 1740
22.7cm. diam.

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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