Live Auction 21109The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland
A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'CAPE OF GOOD HOPE' PLATE
Lot 135

A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'CAPE OF GOOD HOPE' PLATE

QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1745

Closed19 October 2023

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A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'CAPE OF GOOD HOPE' PLATE
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1745
Painted with the Dutch fleet at anchor with the Cape of Good Hope in the background, all within a gilt lotus vine surround and a spearhead border at the rim
9 1⁄8 in. (23.2 cm.) diameter

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 2 November 1993, lot 93.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Specialist note

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. See Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, 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.