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.