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A RARE LARGE IMARI DISH However, it did not prove possible to agree a reasonable
EDO PERIOD, 18 TH CENTURY price with the Japanese potters and no orders were
placed. In 1740, the merchants abandoned their attempts
伊万里 色絵大皿、江戸時代、18世紀後期
on orders of the Dutch East India directors. A small
the circular dish with wide rim decorated in iron- number of pieces were made in Japan and until now only
red, black, green and aubergine enamels and gilt on dinner plates are known, Groninger Museum acquired a
underglaze blue with the design known as la Dame au small saucer dish. Now unrecorded is this large dish which
Parasol, the reverse with insects in iron-red suggest, it was a private commission.
51 cm., 20 in. diam. T. Volker, The Japanese Porcelain Trade of the Dutch East
Cornelis Pronk was a Dutch draughtsman and porcelain India Company after 1683 (Leiden, 1959), p. 78–81.
designer. Born in 1691, he became a pupil of Jan van For a similar example, see Soame Jenyns, Japanese
Houten and Arnold Boomen. He was commissioned by the Porcelain, (London, 1965), pl. 46A.
Dutch East India Company to make a series of designs to
be used for porcelain. The first dawning was in 1734 and £ 70,000-90,000
received in Batavia in 1735. This one (see below) was the € 82,500-106,000 US$ 92,500-119,000
only known design to be produced both in Japanese and
Chinese porcelains and became known as La Dame au
Parasol. In sending the drawings to Japan Volker records,
“we are pleased that your Honours have had the drawings
of porcelains, sent from this country, presented to the
Japanese factors in order to test out whether the same
can be made in Japan in conforming with the drawings
(...)” 1

Cornelis van Noorde (1731-1795) Ontwerptekening voor en bord met een dame parasol,
Portrait of the artist Cornelis Pronk, bust PK-T-760 Cornelis Pronk, in or after 1734 - in or before 1736
Leiden University Library, PK-T-760 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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