An Imari plate painted in underglaze blue, iron-red, coloured enamels and gilt with 'La Dame au Parasol' after the design by the Dutch draftsman Cornelis Pronk, an attendant holding a parasol raised above a lady looking down at three waterbirds, a fourth disappearing into a pond fringed with bull rushes, the well with rose-headed sprays divided by prunus, peony, chrysanthemum and berried foliage, the border reserved with alternate panels of ladies and attendants and the four birds, the underside with seven iron-red penciled insects (damaged) -- 9¼in. diam, circa 1740.