拍品 318
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AN IMARI 'LA DAME AU PARASOL' PLATE after the design by the Dutch draughtsman Cornelis Pronk, decorated in coloured enamels and gilt on underglaze-blue with an attendant holding a parasol raised above a courtesan looking down at three water birds, a fourth bird disappearing into a pond fringed with bulruches, the well with rose-headed sprays divided by prunus, peony, chrysanthemums and berried foliage, the border reserved with alternating panels of ladies and attendants and the four birds depicted in the central panel, the larger panels within feathery cartouches, all reserved on a ground of graduated cell- pattern, the reverse with iron-red pencilled insects (restored), early 18th Century

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AN IMARI 'LA DAME AU PARASOL' PLATE after the design by the Dutch draughtsman Cornelis Pronk, decorated in coloured enamels and gilt on underglaze-blue with an attendant holding a parasol raised above a courtesan looking down at three water birds, a fourth bird disappearing into a pond fringed with bulruches, the well with rose-headed sprays divided by prunus, peony, chrysanthemums and berried foliage, the border reserved with alternating panels of ladies and attendants and the four birds depicted in the central panel, the larger panels within feathery cartouches, all reserved on a ground of graduated cell- pattern, the reverse with iron-red pencilled insects (restored), early 18th Century
26.5cm. diam.

拍品專文

The design 'La Dame au Parasol' was first introduced by the Chinese, it was one of several designs commissioned by the Dutch East India Company from Cornelis Pronk between 1734 and 1737. The Dutch also approached the Japanese to produce sample plates decorated with 'La Dame au Parasol' in Imari and Arita blue and white. According to a letter from the Heeren XVII to the Hoge Regering at the V.O.C. base in Batavia dated 20 0ctober 1734, the first Pronk design was intendent to be painted onto dinner services in colours and blue. According to Soame Jenyns two of the birds represented are the ruff and the spoonbill and both are native birds of Holland
Cf. C.P.A. Jorg, Pronk Porcelain, Exhibition Catalogue, Groninger Museum, April-June 1980, nos. 32 and 35; Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, pl.46a