拍品 53
53
A PAIR OF DON QUIXOTE PLATES
A PAIR OF DON QUIXOTE PLATES

CIRCA 1750

细节
A PAIR OF DON QUIXOTE PLATES
Circa 1750
The hapless knight shown saluting, seated on a horse led by the faithful Sancho Panza and holding a lance, two woman deshabille peek out from behind a tall tree in the landscape of craggy rocks, the rim with four gilt scrollwork-edged grisaille panels of landscape alternating with birds on blossoming boughs
9in. (23cm.) diameter (2)

拍品专文

In this version of the scene from Cervantes' novel, dating about ten years later than the preceding lots, the landscape has become more Chinese, the barber and his horse have disappeared, and the basin on Quixote's head has become an odd black hat. Howard and Hervouet both speculate that these plates were based on the earlier Chinese export porcelain, rather than on one of the Coypel-inspired European engravings. See Howard and Ayers, op. cit., vol. I, pl. 344 and Hervouet and Bruneau, op. cit., pp. 194-5.