CIRCA 1750

細節

A FAMILLE ROSE 'DON QUIXOTE' PLATE
Circa 1750
Brightly enamelled at the centre with Don Quixote holding a lance and wearing full blue armour with a puce cloak, seated astride his horse, Rosinante, Sancho Panza holding the reins and two women, one wearing blue and the other yellow, watching from behind a tree to one side, the border with four vignettes painted en grisaille with scenes of landscapes alternating with birds among trees, each enclosed within a narrow gilt scroll border
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.

來源

François Hervouët (inventory no.309); Sotheby's, Monaco, 22 June 1987, lot 1630 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-138).

出版

F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, fig.9.3, p.195.

注意事項

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拍場告示

Please note this plate has a hairline crack.

拍品專文

This plate may be from a service said to have belonged originally to Phillip Bromfield J.P. (1739-99), Captain of the East Indiaman St. Anne, which traded into Canton; however, it has been pointed out that the style of the service predates Captain Bromfield's visits to Canton, unless as a young man he ordered it for a member of his family.

This is the second of two services made in Chinese porcelain with this scene. The earlier service of circa 1742 faithfully copies an engraving by J. Folkema of circa 1741 which is after an engraving by B. Picart, which in turns copies a painting by C. Coypel. However, the enamelling on the present service is clearly an interpretation by the Chinese artist of the earlier service: he has omitted Sancho Panza's kneeling donkey; Don Quixote's hat has been transformed from a barber's bowl in the earlier service to a black hat in this one; and the landscape is rather typically Chinese. Another plate from the present service is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, no.344; and by D. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, no.85, pp.94 and 95.