Live Auction 3001The Decorative Arts Sale
A pair of Chinese Imari 'Dame au Parasol' plates
Lot 257

A pair of Chinese Imari 'Dame au Parasol' plates

CIRCA 1740

Closed4 April 2012

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EUR 3,250

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A pair of Chinese Imari 'Dame au Parasol' plates
Circa 1740
Painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gilt after a design by Cornelis Pronk, depicting a lady approaching three cormorants on a riverbank, with her parasol-bearer standing behind her, within a narrow band of trailing stems of flowers divided by quatrefoil roundels at the well, within iron-red and gilt rectangular cell-pattern reserved with bird and figural cartouches, the reverse painted with a band of scattered insects, small rim restorations, frits
23.4 cm. diam.

Each with label of M. Bascourt, Antwerpen, to the reverse.

Specialist note

This design stems from 1734 and was drawn up by the Dutch draughtsman Cornelis Pronk. It was the first drawing he made for the Dutch East India Company; it was sent via Batavia to both China and Japan and services with this design are known not only in blue and white and in the famille rose palette, but also in Chinese Imari. See C.J.A. Jörg, Pronk Porcelain, Groningen, 1980, pp.14-28, and pp.61-73, for a full discussion of this design.