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About this Item
A Chinese Table Bay plate, Qianlong period, 1735-1796
painted en grisaille with two ships and a skiff in Table Bay flying enamelled Dutch flags before Table Mountain, Devils Peak, Lions Head and Signal Hill, enclosed by a double en grisaille line, the border painted with flower-filled cornucopias, foliage and flowerheads, gilt rim, restored, 22,7cm diameter
Provenance
Sue Ollemans, Michael Stevenson & Deon Viljoen, Art of the Dutch & British Colonies in South Africa & East Asia, Johannesburg, 26-29 August 1998, lot 41.
Property of a Collector.
Literature
C.S. Woodward (1974) Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope, A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, illustrated on page 137, fig.157.