A "TRUMPETER" TEABOWL AND SAUCER

Details
A "TRUMPETER" TEABOWL AND SAUCER
QIANLONG, CIRCA 1745

Possibly after a design by Pronk, painted with two musicians blowing horns reserved on a black ground (the saucer with base crack, rim crack and fritted area, the cup with rim chip)
Provenance
D. M. & P. Manheim, New York, New York

Lot Essay

Cf. Two plates from this series, in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, are illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, op. cit., no. 8.20. A bowl in the Mottahedeh Collection with similar decoration is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, op. cit., p. 305, no. 299, who suggest that it is possibly another design by Cornelis Pronk. See also Scheurleer, p. cit., pl. 92 for a milk-jug and cover with a hornblower on the front and a trumpeter on the back, in the Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg.