拍品 132
132
A COMMEDIA DELL' ARTE PLATE painted in green, yellow and red enamels, gilt and underglaze blue with a central figure on a chequered ground dividing the inscription 'wie op Uytrecht of nieuw Amsterdam', (who wants to speculate on Utrecht or New Amsterdam) (minute rim chip), circa 1720

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A COMMEDIA DELL' ARTE PLATE painted in green, yellow and red enamels, gilt and underglaze blue with a central figure on a chequered ground dividing the inscription 'wie op Uytrecht of nieuw Amsterdam', (who wants to speculate on Utrecht or New Amsterdam) (minute rim chip), circa 1720
21cm. diam.

拍品專文

Complete series of six are illustrated together with a discussion of the background to these plates satirising the South Sea Bubble 'mania' which burst in 1720, and also John Law's financial speculation in France in: Howard and Ayers, China for the West, vol.I, pp.234-235; Stephen Hartog, Pronken Met Oosters Porselein, exhibition cat. p.119, pl.141;
Leonard Blusse, Tribuut aan China, pp.92-94;
Hervouet, La Porcelaine the Compagnies des Indes, pp.214-219;
C. Jorg, Chinese export Porcelain, from the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, exhibition cat. pp.116-117 for a set of five plates from this series

A set of six plates were sold, Christie's Amsterdam, October 15, 1990, lot 142