Description 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
Condition Report Paper label to the reverse and lot number The plate with extensive restoration throughout Two firing faults to the centre of the plate measuring 0,2cm and 0,2cm diameter
Literature C.S. Woodward (1974) Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope, A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, illustrated on page 137, fig.157.
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.