TWO CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL`ARTE `SOUTH SEA BUBBLE` PLATES

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19.01.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 548 | TWO CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE 'SOUTH SEA BUBBLE' PLATES
TWO CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE 'SOUTH SEA BUBBLE' PLATES

KANGXI/YONGZHENG PERIOD, CIRCA 1722

Each plate painted in doucai enamels with leafy borders in green, underglaze blue and gilt, the center of each with a variant dancing commedia actor on a tiled floor surrounded by black inscriptions of satirical stock-promoting catch-phrases including: De Actie-mars op de tang (The march of the share values played on the tuning fork) and Wie op Uijtrech of Nieu Amsterdam (Who wants to speculate on Utrecht or New Amsterdam?)

8 3⁄8 in. (21.3 cm.) diameter





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Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 29 January 1986, lots 49 and 50.
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