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PROPERTY OF A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTOR
422
A 'PRONK PORCELAIN' BLACK-GROUND
VASE
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1738-40
Of quadrangular form, each panel decorated with
berry branches in the style of Cornelis Pronk
11æ in. (29.8 cm.) high
$8,000–10,000

The unusual shape of this vase was conceived
by Dutch artist, Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759), who
was employed by the Dutch East India Company
to produce porcelain designs from about 1734
until about 1740. Pronk incorporated a number
of these designs, details from botanical studies
by the Dutch-Swiss botanist, Marie Sybille
Merian (1646-1717). A very small number of
these meticulously enameled vases, their shapes
inspired by archaic Chinese bronzes, survive.

422

PROPERTY FROM A FLORIDA COLLECTION
423
AN EARLY FAMILLE ROSE SHIPPING
PLATE
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-35)
A European vessel sails towards a Chinese junk
on frothy green waves, within a pink diaper border
with four panels enclosing various landscapes, the
reverse with underglaze blue symbol within double
circles
8¡ in. (21.2 cm.) diameter
$3,000–5,000
A similar plate with this decoration was in the
Mottahedeh Collection and published by Howard
& Ayers (op cit, vol I, p. 218), who suggests that
is may represent shipping on the Pearl River.
A similar saucer was sold from the Peter H B
Frelinghuysen, Jr. collection of Chinese Export
porcelain in these rooms 24 January 2012, lot 106.
423

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