A FAMILLE ROSE PRONK 'DOCTORS' SAUCER DISH

CIRCA 1738-40

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A FAMILLE ROSE PRONK 'DOCTORS' SAUCER DISH
CIRCA 1738-40
Enameled after the well-known design of Dutch artist Cornelius Pronk within an elaborately enameled border of fish and bird cartouches
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Acquired from J. Cherny in 1975.

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Lot Essay

One of the Dutch painter Cornelis Pronk's four official commissions for the Dutch East India Co. the original watercolor design survives in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. While the experiment in commissioned designs was shortly discontinued, dinner sets, tea pieces and large jars and covers were made in "The Doctors". See C.J.A. Jörg, Porcelain and the Dutch China Trade, pp. 99-101, and Howard & Ayers, op. cit., pp. 193-194.

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