YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG, CIRCA 1734-1738

Details

FOUR CHINESE IMARI 'DAME AU PARASOL' PLATES
YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG, CIRCA 1734-1738
Decorated after a design by Cornelis Pronk, depicting a lady approaching three cormorants on a riverbank, with her parasol-bearer standing behind her
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner from her family country estate near Geneva, when the house and contents were sold in the late 1960s.

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Lot Essay

This design was drawn up by the Dutch draughtsman Cornelis Pronk in 1734. It was the first drawing he made for the Dutch East India Company and was sent, via Batavia, to both China and Japan to be copied onto porcelain. Services with this design are known in blue and white and in the famille rose palette, as well as in Chinese Imari. See C.J.A. Jörg, Pronk Porcelain, Groningen, 1980, pp.14-28, and pp.61-73, for a full discussion of this design. The original drawing is now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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