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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE ‘DON QUIXOTE’ SOUP PLATE A RARE DATED DUTCH MARKET SHIPPING PLATE
CIRCA 1740 DATED 1756
Richly enameled with the knight on horseback, the barber’s basin
on his head and the faithful Sancho Panza at his side, two deshabille Finely enameled and gilt with the East Indiaman Vryburg fying
women peeking out from a tree the Dutch fag at the stern, the standard of Middleburg at the
bow, at the rim the inscription T:SCHIP:VRYBYRG CE
8√ in. (22.4 cm.) diameter VOERT:DOOR:CAPITEYN IACOB, RYZIK IN:CHINA:INT
IAAR.1756. surmounted by a coronet
$15,000-25,000
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE:
PROVENANCE:
Christie’s, New York, January 1998, lot 38.
Christie’s, London, November 2001, lot 277.
After an engraving by J. Folkema inspired by C.A. Coypel drawings
depicting the adventure of Don Quixote related in Chapter XXI The Dutch ship Vryburg sailed between Holland and China between
of Cervantes chef d’oeuvre, when the knight steals a brass barber’s 1748 and 1771 under Captain Jacob Ryzik. Only plates of this
basin that he believes to be the enchanted helmet of the king design are known; it appears that they were made to commemorate
Mambrin. See Hervouet and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies the 1756 journey to Canton rather than as a dinner service.
des Indes, pp. 194-5 Plates of the same design were made the next year for Christ(ian)
Schooneman on the occasion of his journey to Whampoa.

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