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Lot Essay
For similar examples see Ashmolean Museum Eastern Ceramics and other works of art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger (Oxford, 1981), p. 86, pl.232; Chuokoronsha Nihon no toji [Japanese ceramics], vol. 8, Ko-Imari (Tokyo, 1975), p. 107, pl. 212 and Hong Kong Museum of Art, Interaction in Ceramics, Oriental Porcelain and Delftware, (Hong Kong, 1984), p. 130, pl. 86.
This design is after one by the Dutch painter Cornelius Pronk to a commission from the Dutch East India Company. The surviving original drawing can be found in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and was of a Chinese lady and her attendant, as opposed to the Japanese lady seen in this example. The original design is known to have been sent from Batavia to Deshima in 1736 as well as to China in order to be copied onto porcelain. The costs being too high, there are no records of this ever having been done in Japan. However this Japanese version with a Japanese courtesan have been found on plates and dishes only, and it is believed that they were undoubtedly private orders, placed by the Company staff in Deshima.
This design is after one by the Dutch painter Cornelius Pronk to a commission from the Dutch East India Company. The surviving original drawing can be found in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and was of a Chinese lady and her attendant, as opposed to the Japanese lady seen in this example. The original design is known to have been sent from Batavia to Deshima in 1736 as well as to China in order to be copied onto porcelain. The costs being too high, there are no records of this ever having been done in Japan. However this Japanese version with a Japanese courtesan have been found on plates and dishes only, and it is believed that they were undoubtedly private orders, placed by the Company staff in Deshima.