A LARGE DON QUIXOTE PLATE

CIRCA 1740

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A LARGE DON QUIXOTE PLATE
Circa 1740
Richly enamelled with the knight on horseback wearing armor and a deep rose cape, the barber's basin on his head and the faithful Sancho Panza and donkey at his side, two deshabille women peering out from behind a tree at one side and in the distance the barber seen fleeing
11.1/8in. (28.2cm.) diameter

Provenance

W. Martin Hurst collection
The Lucile and Robert H. Gries Charity Fund
Western Reserve Historical Society

Lot Essay

After an engraving by J. Folkema inspired by a C.A. Coypel painting, this earlier version of the Spanish literary classic show several elements missing from the circa 1750 Chinese export plates, and is perhaps more European in its style of painting. See Hervouet and Bruneau, op. cit., pp.124-5.

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