ID 1122121
Lot 543 | A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'DON QUIXOTE' PLATE
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1741
Richly enameled with the hapless knight wearing armor and a rose cape as he rides his humble steed, Rocinante, a lance in his hand and the barber's basin on his head, the faithful Sancho Panza walking with his donkey at the right, two women peeking from behind a tree at the left and the barber in the distance seen fleeing, his horse fallen on the ground, within a gilt, iron-red and grisaille border with four floral sprays
8 ½ in. (21.6 cm.) diameter
Provenance
With Earle D. Vandekar, New York.
Collection of Khalil Rizk; Sotheby's, New York, 25 April 2008, lot 180.
Literature
D.S. Howard, exhibition catalogue, A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, London, Sotheby's, 1997, pp. 110-111, no. 132.
Exhibited
San Francisco, Fort Mason Center, the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show, A Passion for Porcelain: 18th-Century Chinese Export Porcelain from the Collection of Khalil Rizk, 26-29 October 1995.
London, Sotheby's, A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, January 1997, no. 132.
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Art style: | Chinese Export |
| Historical era: | Qianlong period |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes, Plates |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Art style: | Chinese Export |
| Historical era: | Qianlong period |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes, Plates |
| Address of auction |
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