CIRCA 1730

Details

A rare 'Gluckig Arivement' plate
Circa 1730
Decorated with three ships under full sail flying the Dutch flag, the ships painted with shaded brown, blue, rose, white and iron-red, the right ship heightened in gilding and flying a yellow, white and brown flag, the central ship with an indecipherable name IVEVUUK...(?), underneath the inscription GLUCKIG ARIVEMENT, 'happy homecoming' (homecoming), encircled at the rim with four flower-sprays interpersed with four blue dragon medallions, between a green and yellow ground trellis diaper pattern border, restored
22.5 cm. (8 7/8 in.) diam.

Provenance

Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-120).

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Lot Essay

This rare subject of treasure-laden merchantmen returning to home port, so emblematic of the China trade, is found in the Mottahedeh collection, see Howard and J. Ayers, China for the the West, London, 1978, vol 1, p. 198; and in the Hodroff collection, see D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, p. 66, fig. 43.
A similar plate was sold at Christie's, New York, Tuesday 23 January, 2001, lot 121.

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