1736-1738

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A rare blue and white 'La Dame au Parasol' teapot and a cover
1736-1738
Painted on the globular body with the well known 'La Dame au Parasol' design by the Cornelis Pronk, a lady and her parasol-bearer standing before three cormorants on a riverbank, below a border of flower stems around the shoulder, associated cover
12.5 cm. high

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Lot Essay

The Dutch draughtsman, Cornelis Pronk (1691-1754), was commissioned in 1734 by directors of the Dutch East India Company to produce designs to be transferred on to Chinese porcelain, which they hoped would be more successful than Chinese designs. However, due to the expense of transferring his designs onto porcelain, the volume of Pronk's work is relatively small, and his designs ceased in 1738. The design 'La Dame au Parasol' was the first drawing Pronk made for the Dutch East India Company, the watercolour of it is in the Rijksmuseum. Services with this design are known in blue and white and in the famille rose palette, as well as Chinese Imari.
See C.J.A. Jörg, Pronk Porcelain, Groningen, 1980, pp.14-28 and pp.61-73, for a full discussion of this design.

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