DON QUICHOTTE IN MONTEREAU AND LUNEVILLE earthenware. - Lot 270

DON QUICHOTTE IN MONTEREAU AND LUNEVILLE earthenware. AFTER CERVANTES. SERIES OF ELEVEN PLATES. One is missing (the famous mill episode). Montereau, Unpublished [1830?] These dishes come from the Montereau earthenware factory and bear the n°19. They have a diameter of 22 cm. The scenes depicted are in black and white. A fine set produced during the Restoration period. The most striking passages and characters from the novel are depicted (Maritorne, the false Micomicon priestess, the knight of mirrors, etc.). [Four late 19th-century Lunéville earthenware plates, 19.5 cm in diameter. The scenes are in bistre and without captions; surrounded by a green border with flowers. They include: Don Quixote in a cage; the fight with the prisoners; Don Quixote stoned to death; Don Quixote in his nightdress. [Six 20 cm color dishes. They are Lunéville earthenware signed K&G and date from 1880. The rather intimate central scenes are surrounded by various episodes from the novel. There are no captions.