QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1738

Name: A BLUE AND WHITE 'PRONK DAME AU PARASOL' SAUCER
Brand: QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1738
Price: 1400.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 1,750

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USD 1,500 - USD 2,000

Closed: 20 Jan 2021

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'PRONK DAME AU PARASOL' SAUCER

QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1738

Price Realised USD 1,750

Closed: 20 Jan 2021

Price Realised USD 1,750

Closed: 20 Jan 2021

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Decorated with the classic pattern finely painted in underglaze blue
6¹⁄₈ in. (15.5 cm.) diameter

With The Chinese Porcelain Co., New York.

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Lot Essay

In 1734 the directors of Holland’s VOC commissioned Amsterdam artist Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759) to create four patterns for Chinese porcelain. Pronk’s drawings were sent to VOC headquarters in Batavia (later Java) and then on to Canton in 1736; two survive today in the Rijksmuseum. With a Chinoiserie vocabulary Pronk created distinctive scenes and motifs that were then produced by the Chinese workshops in differing quantities of famille rose enamels, blue and white and ‘Chinese Imari’.

The first and best-known of the Pronk patterns is known as ‘La Dame au Parasol’, showing a lady shaded by her maid as she feeds waterbirds.