A Chinese 'South Sea Bubble' dish, circa 1720

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A Chinese 'South Sea Bubble' dish, circa 1720
painted in underglaze blue and enameled in iron-red, green, black and gilt with a central European figure standing on a chequered floor below a beamed celing with his head turned to the right wearing a feathered hat, his right hand stretched downwards with his palm open, flanked by the Dutch inscription 'pardie al myn Actien Kwyt' ('By god I lost all my shares'), with frond-like leaves below the rim -- 8 5/16in. (21.1cm.) diam.

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This dish is one of a series of plates made for the Dutch market between 1722 - 1735 as a satirical attack on the financial world of the early 18th century. The series is called 'Bubble' plates, since it was likely to have been made to satirize the South Sea Bubble 'mania' which burst in 1720, in order to warn Dutch speculators not to set up a similar company in Holland or to ridicule the shareholders of the Dutch East India Company. The series is also referred to as 'Commedia dell'Arte' and 'The Great Scene of Folly'.