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128 In this scene Quixote has encountered a barber who is holding a basin
A VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE ‘DON QUIXOTE’ TEABOWL AND over his head to shelter from the rain (the woman on the left appears
SAUCER to be sheltering herself with her cloak too). With his characteristic
Qianlong period, circa 1745 ability to conjure up heroic adventures out of the mundane, Quixote
Enameled across the saucer and around the cup’s exterior principally has assumed the basin to be the ‘Helmet of Mambrino’, a legendary
in vivid shades of pink, grey, yellow and green with a scene from the possession of a Moorish King, made of pure gold and rendering the
famous Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes, ‘The ingenious wearer invulnerable. The scene is based on an imaginative design
Gentleman Don Quixote’, the bumbling romantic knight mounted in by Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752) originally for the Gobelins
full armor on his sturdy steed roaming Spain in search of chivalrous tapestry factory. Images by Coypel were engraved by a number of
escapades accompanied by his roguish servant Sancho Panza. artists including Louis Surugue, Gerard Vendergucht and Jacob
the saucer: 5 1/4in (13.5cm) diam Folkema (fig.1). The Vandergucht series of engravings was used for an
early English edition published around 1732.
$6,000 - 8,000
This design is one of the most sought after by collectors of European
乾隆時期 約1745年 珍稀粉彩《堂吉訶德》茶盞托盤一組 subjects on Chinese export porcelain. It is now thought that three
services may have been ordered, the first in 1745, as here, just after
Published: the Jacob Folkema or Jan Van der Gucht print was published, the
Cohen & Cohen, Baroque and Roll, Antwerp, 2015, pp. 92-93, no. 59 second about 1750 and the third sometime between 1755 and 1770.
For further discussion, see Cohen & Cohen, Baroque & Roll, Antwerp,
出版： 2015, pp. 94-95, no. 60.
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Baroque and Roll》，安特衛
普，2015年，頁92-93，圖版編號59 The story is popular and emblematic of all that Quixote represents.
Don Quixote is a hero for any age but especially for ours. He has a
huge imagination nurtured by reading many books and his innocence
and excitement at the prospect of adventure appears as madness to
the ‘gray’ people around him. He has his own code: an ancient one
of morality and honor, the code of Chivalry, and he sets out bravely to
rectify the wrongs he encounters.

For a very similar example, see Cohen & Cohen, The Golden Gate
Collection, Antwerp, 2018, pp. 58-59, no. 45

(fig.1)

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