Details
Painted with the Dutch fleet at anchor with the Cape of Good Hope in the background, all within a spearhead band and gilt scrollwork border at the rim, in imitation of Meissen Gitterwerk
918 in. (23.2 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Angelo Caldas Collection; Sotheby's, London, 8 May 1990, lot 86.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
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Lot Essay

This resting point midway though the six-month trip between Europe and Guangzhou (Canton) was a familiar sight to both Portuguese and Dutch traders. Shown is the Dutch fleet that took control of the territory in 1652. For a discussion of this motif, see C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, pp. 84-85, no. 33; an example in the Benjamin F. Edwards III Collection was sold at Christie's, New York, 26 January 2010, lot 7.

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