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Lot Essay
C.J.A. Jorg identifies the Arbor as Cornelis Pronk's fourth and last official design for the Dutch East India Co., noting that "[because of the high cost of these special patterns]...they ordered a small quantity..." and estimating that just three large Arbor dinner services were made in enamel colors (Pronk Porcelain, pp 36-37). Jorg illustrates just one other dish of this massive scale and unusual form, a famille rose "Doctors" example, calling it a "fish dish", and reproduces a VOC resolution of 1735 and 1736 specifying just two "fish dishes to each 371-piece dinner service (ibid, p 78 and p 53).