A RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'DON QUIXOTE' PLATE

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'DON QUIXOTE' PLATE
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Delicately painted after a Western print with Don Quixote and his attendant Sancho Panza, the chivalrous yet eccentric knight peering into the foreground from the saddle of his steed, two incredulous ladies hiding behind a tree to observe the passing pageant, the border with four sepia and grisaille landscape cartouches, small rim chips, some enamels slightly rubbed
9in. (22.7cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf.Howard and Ayers, op.cit., vol.I, p.345, col.pl.344 and F. et N. Hervouet et Y. Bruneau, op.cit., p.195, col.pl.9.3 for similar examples and discussions of the subject's treatment, including the unusually strong Chinese influences. See also Hervouet et Bruneau, op.cit., cat.33 for an earlier version which is closer to an engraving by J. Folkema which served as the original, itself after a print by B. Picart, inspired by a painting by C. Coypel.
A similar plate from the Jarras Collection was sold in these Rooms, 13 June 1990, lot 106

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