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A RARE PUCE-ENAMELED ‘DUTCH FOLLY FORT’ PLATE Although constructed in the first instance by Chinese builders to
Qianlong period, circa 1750 protect the higher reaches of the Pearl River below Canton, there is
Unusually enameled simply in rich puce with an extensive scene in the little sign that these two Folly Forts ever played a significant military role
Pearl River depicting the key topographical element, the ‘Dutch Folly in the practical defense of Canton; indeed, both forts finally ended up
Fort’, one of only two forts constructed initially by Chinese military settled respectively by Dutch and French occupiers, hence the name
advisers to protect access to the central trading area in the port city of of this example.
Canton.
9in (23cm) diam Sargent also records that the Dutch were given permission to set up a
hospital on the island, but later were discovered to be bringing in guns.
$2,500 - 4,500 The images of the Forts never seem to suggest any significant military
activity, although the lower reaches of the Pearl River were supposedly
乾隆時期 約1750年 罕見堆紅《荷蘭海堡》盤 plagued by swarms of pirates concealed in easy hiding places along
the winding river banks, heading downriver to the South China Seas.
Provenance: This may have prompted the original motivation for creating these, as
Collection Hervouët, Monaco observation towers to monitor threatening visitors of all kinds.
Kenneth Main Collection, Naples, Florida
For a discussion of the Folly forts and an illustration of the Peabody
來源： Essex Museum’s later blue and white platter showing one, see Sargent
摩納哥Hervouët舊藏 2012.
佛羅里達，那不勒斯Kenneth Main舊藏

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