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A famille rose 'Arbour' saucer dish
CIRCA 1738
Details
A famille rose 'Arbour' saucer dish CIRCA 1738
Enamelled after a design by Cornelis Pronk with two ladies seated under an arbour accompanied by four boys, one watching ducks in a stream in the foreground, the green trellis-pattern border reserved with fruit, insect and floral cartouches, rim crack
22.2 cm. diam.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 April 1997, lot 51 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-179).
The Dr Anton C.R, Dreesmann Collection, Christie's, London, 10 April 2002, lot 418.
Special notice
Christie's charges a Buyer's premium calculated at 23.205% of the hammer price for each lot with a value up to €110,000. If the hammer price of a lot exceeds €110,000 then the premium for the lot is calculated at 23.205% of the first €110,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of €110,000. Buyer's Premium is calculated on this basis for each lot individually.
Lot Essay
See catalogue notes to lot 366. This is Pronk's fourth and last certain design for the Dutch East India Company and was drawn in 1737.
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