PERIOD: 18th century
A CHINESE EXPORT 'DON QUIXOTE' PLATE CIRCA 1740 painted with Don Quixote in a suit of armor, touching his left hand to a barber's bowl worn as Mambrino's helmet, holding a spear, and seated astride his donkey, Rocinate, led by Sancho Panza, with two curious ladies peering from behind a tree before the frightened Mambrino fleeing in the distance, the cavetto with a gilt chain border, and the rim with four gilt flowering branches within a blossom and foliate-scroll border
PRIX: $15000