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A FINE PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE PRONK ‘ARBOR’ PLATES Yasumasa Oka (1985) identified a drawing by Pronk of a cholon, or
Qianlong period, circa 1740 Chinese teahouse, in the gardens of Bosch en Hoven, near Haarlem,
Decorated with chinoiserie figures under an arbor surrounded by three which is in the same shape as the topiary here. Such teahouses were
children, with ducks in a pond in the foreground, the rim with panels of popular in many Dutch gardens. The cholon was also engraved by
fruit, flowers and insects interspersed with palmettes, all in underglaze Hendrik de Leth but was replaced in the 1920s by a small chapel.
blue with gilt detailing.
9in (23cm) diam (2). The four insects on the rim were taken from Maria Sybilla Merian’s
Erucarum Ortus, published in 1718 and in an enlarged Dutch edition,
$5,000 - 7,000 European Insects, in 1730. Three of these have been identified before
(Cohen & Cohen 2012, 66-7). The flowers and the other eight panels
乾隆時期 約1740年 青花普龍克《涼亭》盤一對 are European style but have not been identified.
Published: For an informative discussion of the use of documented patterns by
Cohen & Cohen, Baroque & Roll, Antwerp, 2015, pp. 112-113, no. 70 Pronk, see William R. Sargent, Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics
from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, 2012, pp. 275-293, nos.
出版： 146 and 147.
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Baroque & Roll》，安特衛普，2015
年，頁112-113，圖版編號70 See also, Scheurleer, 1974, plate 202; Jörg, 1980, nos. 48-50, 34;
Jörg, 1989 no. 52; Du Boulay, 1966, 262; Le Corbeiller, 1973, cat. 30,
Although the original pattern has not been found the design is certain and 1974, fig. 24; Forbes, 1982, 42, no. 69; Litzenburg, 2002, 177;
to have come from the Dutch drawing master Cornelis Pronk, who was Howard, 1994, nos. 55-4; Clunas, 1987, pl. 48; Shimizu & Chabanne,
commissioned by the Dutch East India Company in 1734 to create 2003, no. 158, 207; Oka, Antike, no. 2, Aug/Sept 1985, 69-76; Mezin,
designs specifically to be reproduced on porcelain. This is probably his 2002, no. 28, 53.
fourth design for the VOC, produced in 1737 and known in blue and
white, and in opaque enamels but not in Chinese Imari.

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