A VERY RARE 'PRONK' COFFEE-POT AND COVER
A VERY RARE 'PRONK' COFFEE-POT AND COVER

CIRCA 1740

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A VERY RARE 'PRONK' COFFEE-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1740
Painted with a wide band of beetles, butterflies and moths above black-ground flowering vine, all between mint-green scale pattern, the black-ground handle with gilt tassel or bell-flower motifs
12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm.) high (2)
来源
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 1989, lot 224.
出版
Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 157, no. 171.

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As Howard notes in The Choice of the Private Trader, the present design is "clearly the work of the studio of Cornelis Pronk". The decoration on the handle relates closely to that on Pronk's 'Trumpeter' service.