拍品專文
Commissioned in 1735, 'The Doctor's Visit to the Emperor' is the second design drawn by Cornelis Pronk for the Dutch East India Company, the first being 'La Dame au Parasol' in 1734. Due to the expense of transferring the subject onto porcelain, the volume of Pronk's work is small and only two orders of this design were believed to have been placed: the first was carried to the Netherlands on the Hogersmilde at the end of 1738 followed by the second order in the next year. A simplified version of the design, which excludes the standing man, was sent to Canton in 1739.
This vase would have originally formed part of a five-piece mantelpiece garniture. According to the Dutch East India Company records, eighteen blue and white garnitures with this design were sent to the Netherlands. A complete blue and white garniture is in the Hodroff Collection, illustrated by D. S. Howard, op.cit., 1994, no.284, p.240; a very similar vase from the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, was exhibited in both the Groningen Museum and in the Gemeente Museum, the Hague, 1980, Catalogue no.41, p.75.
This vase is probably the one sold in these Rooms, 29 March 1982, lot 355, illustrated by A.du Boulay, op.cit., p.263, no.10.
This vase would have originally formed part of a five-piece mantelpiece garniture. According to the Dutch East India Company records, eighteen blue and white garnitures with this design were sent to the Netherlands. A complete blue and white garniture is in the Hodroff Collection, illustrated by D. S. Howard, op.cit., 1994, no.284, p.240; a very similar vase from the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, was exhibited in both the Groningen Museum and in the Gemeente Museum, the Hague, 1980, Catalogue no.41, p.75.
This vase is probably the one sold in these Rooms, 29 March 1982, lot 355, illustrated by A.du Boulay, op.cit., p.263, no.10.