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A FAMILLE ROSE ‘PRONK DOCTORS’ A FAMILLE ROSE ‘PRONK DOCTORS’
LARGE PLATE LARGE PLATE A FAMILLE ROSE MYTHOLOGICAL
CIRCA 1738-1740 CIRCA 1738-1740 TEAPOT AND COVER DEPICTING ‘AIR’
Enameled with four fgures in a garden, CIRCA 1740-1745
within an elaborately enameled border Enameled after the design of Dutch artist
Cornelis Pronk for the VOC with four With simple loop handle and straight spout,
10 in. (25.4 cm.) diameter robed Chinese courtiers in a garden, a Ming enameled all around the globular body ‘Air’
type blue and white dish before them and from Albani’s ‘The Four Elements’, Hera in
$8,000-10,000 a peacock perched on a fence to the side her peacock chariot to one side and Zeus to
and a parrot above, all within an elaborately the reverse
PROVENANCE: enameled border with six cartouches
enclosing three exotic fsh 6æ in. (17 cm.) long (2)
The Collection of Joseph M. Morpurgo,
Amsterdam. 10 in. (25.5 cm.) diameter $5,000-10,000
With Aronson Antiquaries, Amsterdam.
$5,000-8,000 PROVENANCE:
After a design by Cornelius Pronk (1691-
1759) entitled ‘The Doctor’s Visit to the The W. Martin Hurst Collection.
Emperor,’ executed in China for the Dutch The Raf Y. Mottahedeh Collection, 123.
East India Company (VOC). The Khalil Rizk Collection, CEPES 104.
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