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CIRCA 1738
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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'ARBOR' PLATES
Circa 1738
Each decorated after a design of the artist Cornelis Pronk commissioned by the Dutch East India Co. showing a group of Chinese ladies around a topiary arbor growing with roses, children at one side and ducks in a pond in the foreground, all within an elaborate green-ground border with insect, flowers and fruit panels, on the backs a purple and iron-red lambrequin border
9¼in. (23.5cm.) diam. (2)
Circa 1738
Each decorated after a design of the artist Cornelis Pronk commissioned by the Dutch East India Co. showing a group of Chinese ladies around a topiary arbor growing with roses, children at one side and ducks in a pond in the foreground, all within an elaborate green-ground border with insect, flowers and fruit panels, on the backs a purple and iron-red lambrequin border
9¼in. (23.5cm.) diam. (2)