PLATE WITH DECORATION KNOWN AS "SHAREHOLDERS OR... - Lot 8 - Coutau-Bégarie

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PLATE WITH DECORATION KNOWN AS "SHAREHOLDERS OR... - Lot 8 - Coutau-Bégarie
PLATE WITH DECORATION KNOWN AS "SHAREHOLDERS OR "THE GREAT SCENES OF MADNESS" IN PORCELAIN. Yongzheng period (1723-1735) Decorated in iron red, blue overglaze and eggplant, enhanced with gold, representing a character from the Commedia dell'Arte, satirizing the disasters of financial speculation. The "South Sea Bubble" was a rampant and widespread financial speculation in the 1720s, which led to financial ruin and even imprisonment in Holland and England. Parodies depicting investors were published, often using the popular Commedia dell'Arte, featuring Harlequin, to mock investors. An influential satirical work published in Amsterdam in 1720 was entitled This great Theatre of Folly, depicting the origin, progress and fall of the South Sea Bubble" in France, England and Holland. Engravings of this type finally made their way to China, to be China, to be copied on porcelain. Several variants are known, with or without a cartouche on the wing, or in doucai enamel. A complete series in doucai enamels is preserved in the Musée de la Compagnie des Indes in Port Louis. A fel on the wing. Diameter : 20,5 cm.
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