Live Auction 1555European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part I
FOUR CHINESE IMARI 'DAME AU PARASOL' PLATES
Lot 58 Property of an English Lady

FOUR CHINESE IMARI 'DAME AU PARASOL' PLATES

YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG, CIRCA 1734-1738

Closed30 September 2014

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FOUR CHINESE IMARI 'DAME AU PARASOL' PLATES
YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG, CIRCA 1734-1738
Decorated after a design by Cornelis Pronk, depicting a lady approaching three cormorants on a riverbank, with her parasol-bearer standing behind her
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diam.

Acquired by the present owner from her family country estate near Geneva, when the house and contents were sold in the late 1960s.

Specialist note

This design was drawn up by the Dutch draughtsman Cornelis Pronk in 1734. It was the first drawing he made for the Dutch East India Company and was sent, via Batavia, to both China and Japan to be copied onto porcelain. Services with this design are known in blue and white and in the famille rose palette, as well as 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. The original drawing is now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.