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For a similar cup and saucer see D. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., vol. I, p.302, no. 296 and C.J.A. Jorg, op. cit., p.39, fig. 15
EUROPEAN SUBJECTS AND ARMORIAL
A RARE ENAMELLED 'PRONK' CUP AND SAUCER after the design by the Dutch draughtsman Cornelis Pronk, finely decorated with a central circular panel of an aubergine feathery Baroque palmette reserved on a yellow and black cell-pattern ground, within a band of lappets issuing spear-heads at the rim, the cup similarly decorated (saucer with star crack), circa 1736 (2)
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A RARE ENAMELLED 'PRONK' CUP AND SAUCER after the design by the Dutch draughtsman Cornelis Pronk, finely decorated with a central circular panel of an aubergine feathery Baroque palmette reserved on a yellow and black cell-pattern ground, within a band of lappets issuing spear-heads at the rim, the cup similarly decorated (saucer with star crack), circa 1736 (2)