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A RARE CHINESE IMARI PRONK ‘LE DAME AU PARASOL’ In 1734 the directors of the Netherlands East Indian Company
WAVY-RIMMED BUTTER COOLER, COVER AND STAND (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie: VOC) commissioned
Qianlong period, circa 1740-1780 Amsterdam artist Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759) to create four
Painted in the Imari palette on each separate piece with a an elegant patterns for Chinese porcelain. Pronk’s drawings were sent to VOC
lady standing under a parasol held by an attendant, the lady holding headquarters in Batavia and then on to Canton in 1736. Using a
out a hand to four separate species of marsh birds walking on the ‘Chinoiserie’ vocabulary Pronk created distinctive scenes and motifs
bank before them, the four species mirrored in cartouches at the rim, that were then produced by the Chinese workshops in Jingdezhen in
as are the lady and the ‘parasol’ attendant, all on a cell ground in a variety of types. However, it has been noted by Sargent, Treasures
shades of iron-red and gilt with a band of composite flower groups of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum,
dividing them, the reverse of the dish with seven equally-spaced Yale, 2012, p. 150, no. 56, that the shape of this vessel derives from
penciled underglaze-blue insects. a molded glass model that is not known before 1780. There is no
9 1/4in (23.5cm) diam documented evidence of later orders of Pronk designs from China, but
Jörg suggests, Pronk Porcelain, Porcelain Designs by Cornelis Pronk,
$8,000 - 12,000 Groninger Museum, 1980, p. 68, no. 24, that it is possible that after
the sale of the Pronk drawings from the Aldert Pronk sale of 1772,
乾隆時期 約1737年 珍稀中國伊萬里普龍克《持傘美人》花口蓋碗暨 that there may have been more orders made. The pattern is certainly
托盤一套 known from European factories in the later eighteenth century and
includes examples from Cozzi (circa 1765), Oude-Amstel (circa 1780),
Published: and later in Brameld English pearlware (circa 1810-1820).
Cohen & Cohen, Hit & Myth, Antwerp, 2014-B, p. 77, no. 43
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Hit & Myth》，安特衛普，2014
年-B，頁77，圖版編號43

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