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A RARE BLACK-GROUND ‘TRUMPETER’ PLATE
CIRCA 1740 60
With two Turkish musicians, possibly inspired by or after Cornelis
Pronk, gilt spearhead at the rim, all on a lustrous black ground

8¿ in. (22.5 cm)

$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE:

Christie’s, London, June 1996, lot 282.

Howard and Ayers, (China For the West, vol.1, p.305) suggest that
this was undoubtedly a specially commissioned design, since the
shapes of pieces are those of European tea-services in about 1740
and as it illustrates music played ‘eastward of the Levant’, and discuss
the possibility that the pattern may have been designed by Cornelis
Pronk for a private order through the VOC.

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A FAMILLE ROSE ‘PRONK DOCTORS’ LARGE PLATE
CIRCA 1738-40
Enameled after a design by Cornelis Pronk with three figures seated at
a small table on which is placed a Ming-style blue and white dish

10 in. (25.5 cm.) diameter

$6,000-8,000

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A FAMILLE ROSE ‘PRONK ARBOR’ PLATE
CIRCA 1738
Decorated with a lady seated under an arbor attended by servants,
with an iron-red and purple frieze under the rim

9º in. (23.5 cm.) diameter

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE:

Acquired from Elinor Gordon, Pennsylvania, in 2002.

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