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93 The plate depicts Dutch merchant ships moored in the harbour off Cape
A rare grisaille and gilt plate with a view of Cape Town Town. The city was one of the most important trading posts on the
18th century maritime sea route to China and occupied early by the Dutch as a crucial
Delicately enamelled in the well with two three-masted galleons with settlement. The ships are normally portrayed moored beneath Table
furled sails in the foreground, each flying the Dutch flag enamelled in Mountain, while at its left Devil’s Peak stands guard and at the right the
red, white and blue and with gilt details, the background with a dramatic skyline is completed with the flag-topped mounds of Lions Head and
view of the distinctive Table Mountain wreathed in clouds and Cape Signal Hill. Very often the Castle of Good Hope stands to the left, flying a
Town nestled beneath with a harbour wall stretching out to where a flag of the VOC. A variety of these plates with different views of the Bay
fishing boat sails, a further Dutch flag flying from a mountain peak, are illustrated by C.S.Woodward, Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good
the border with foliate swags on trellises and floral groups flanked by Hope, 1652-1795, chapter 10 passim: they appear in a variety of styles,
cornucopia. of which the one illustrated as plate 157 is closest to the present lot.
23.1cm (9 1/8in) diam.
£6,000 - 8,000
HK$71,000 - 94,000 CNY56,000 - 75,000

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