CIRCA 1738

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A pair of Imari 'Dame au Parasol' dishes
Circa 1738
Painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gilt after a design by Cornelis Pronk with a lady and her parasol-bearing attendant walking along a riverbank towards three water-fowl, below a band of flower sprays in the well, and a wide band of rectangular cell-pattern reserved with cartouches of water-fowl alternating with panels of ladies, the reverse with seven underglaze-blue insects, minute rim frits
31.2 cm. diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

The Dutch draughtsman, Cornelis Pronk (1691-1754), was commissioned by directors of the Dutch East India Company in 1734 to produce designs to be transferred on to Chinese porcelain, which they hoped would be more successful than Chinese designs. However, due to the expense of transferring his designs onto porcelain, the volume of Pronk's work is relatively small, and his designs ceased in 1738. Two watercolours by Pronk of his designs 'La Dame au Parasol' and 'The Doctors' Visit' are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the first being 'La Dame au Parasol' executed in 1734.
See Howard and Ayers, China for the West, vol. 1, p. 293; and C.J.A. Jörg, 'Pronk Porcelain', p. 73

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