Lot 38
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A DON QUIXOTE SOUP PLATE
A DON QUIXOTE SOUP PLATE

CIRCA 1740

Details
A DON QUIXOTE SOUP PLATE
Circa 1740
Richly enamelled in the center with the knight on horseback in armor, the barber's basin on his head and the faithful Sancho Panza and donkey at his side, two deshabille women peeking out from a tree and in the distance the barber seen fleeing, his horse fallen on the ground, all within a series of delicate grisaille, iron-red and gilt borders
8.7/8in. (22.5cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

After an engraving by J. Folkema inspired by C.A. Coypel drawings, this earlier version of the Don Quixote scene shows several elements missing from the better known, 1750 export plates with grisaille border panels - the fleeing barber, his horse and Panza's donkey - and shows less standardly rendered, more European details, particularly Quixote's horse and the trees. See Hervouet and Bruneau, op. cit., pp. 194-5