Lot 146
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A BLUE AND WHITE 'ARBOUR' PLATE after a design by Cornelis Pronk, the centre painted and gilt with a garden scene depicting a lady and attendant below a gazebo, with a single child hiding to their left and three more children playing with a floral wreath on a bank in the foreground, below a wide border with medallions variously containing fruit, flowers and insects and divided by shells and plumes of feathers all reserved on a trellis-pattern ground, pendent trefoils to the exterior, circa 1735

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'ARBOUR' PLATE after a design by Cornelis Pronk, the centre painted and gilt with a garden scene depicting a lady and attendant below a gazebo, with a single child hiding to their left and three more children playing with a floral wreath on a bank in the foreground, below a wide border with medallions variously containing fruit, flowers and insects and divided by shells and plumes of feathers all reserved on a trellis-pattern ground, pendent trefoils to the exterior, circa 1735
26cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Cornelis Pronk painter, designer and draughtsman was appointed in August 1734 at the age of forty-three, by the V.O.C. to 'make all designs and models to our satisfaction, off all such porcelain as will be ordered from time to time in the Indies,...' The volume of this known work is small. In fact it is possible to find only two drawings which are attributed with good reason to Pronk or his studio. Both are in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam-namely designs known as 'La Dame au Parasol' and 'The Docter's Visit to the Emperor'
cf. Howard and Ayers, op.cit. p.293 for further details; C.J.A. Jorg Pronk Porcelain p.73.I. for a similar example illustrated in colour

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