Lot 29
A Pair of Chinese Export Pronk Porcelain "La Dame Au Parasol" Plates, 18th c., the wells enameled in the Imari palette with Cornelis Pronk's famous design of a lady standing before waterbirds as her attendant shades her with a parasol, the rims banded with alternating figural and avian cartouches on an iron red cell-pattern ground, the exteriors with seven insects in underglaze blue, diameter 9 1/8 in. Note: The "La Dame au Parasol" pattern was one of four designs commissioned by the Dutch East India Company from the Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759), who was sent to Canton to design services for Export. The original "La Dame au Parasol" watercolor by Pronk, executed in 1734, is rendered on Chinese Export porcelain in the blue and white, Imari, and famille-rose palettes.
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