In the famous pattern by Cornelis Pronk, the center with a lady feeding ducks shaded by her maid-servant, the rim with alternating cartouches of ducks and maidens on a cell-pattern ground
9¹⁄₄ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter

The Hodroff Collection; Christie's, New York, 24 January 2007, lot 43 (part).
Acquired from the above by Ann and Gordon Getty.

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In 1734 the directors of Holland’s VOC commissioned Amsterdam artist Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759) to create four patterns for Chinese porcelain. The present lot is of the first and best-known of the Pronk patterns -- ‘La Dame au Parasol’. See R.W. Fuchs II with David S. Howard, Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur, Hanover, 2005, p. 62, for an illustration of Cornelis Pronk's original design for this pattern, now in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.