A FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT DISH depicting 'the arbour' after a design by the Dutch draughtsman, Cornelis Pronk, a lady seated under an arbour attended by servants, all beside a river, the wide border painted with cartouches of flowers, fruit and butterflies reserved on a turquoise trellis-pattern ground embellished with rouge-de-fer shells (crack restored, one rim frit), circa 1738 43.3cm. diam.

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A FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT DISH depicting 'the arbour' after a design by the Dutch draughtsman, Cornelis Pronk, a lady seated under an arbour attended by servants, all beside a river, the wide border painted with cartouches of flowers, fruit and butterflies reserved on a turquoise trellis-pattern ground embellished with rouge-de-fer shells (crack restored, one rim frit), circa 1738 43.3cm. diam.

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Cf.C.le Corbeiller, op.cit., p.59 for a smaller example in the Victoria and Albert Museum; D.F.Lunsingh Scheurleer, op.cit., pl.202 for the example in the Boymans van Berningen Museum, Rotterdam; and C.J.A.Jorg, op.cit., p.104, no.38 for the plate in the Princesshof Museum, Leeuwarden. Also cf.D.Howard and J.Ayers, op.cit., p.301 for a discussion on the decoration.

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