Chinese antique export plate La Dame au Parasol, ca 1738 #3072

Chinese antique export plate La Dame au Parasol, ca 1738 #3072

This famous Chinese export plate with design created by the Dutch painter Cornelis Pronk. This is the best-known of the Pronk patterns and are known as "La Dame au Parasol", showing a lady shaded by her maid as she feeds waterfowls. Qianlong period, ca. 1738

Conditon: Check with UV light. Fair condition. Nicks, cracks, restorations. 

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Note: Since the plate got restoration and re-glued parts there is a risk that these will lose during transportation. This is a risk that you need to be aware of and is not a reason for refund.

Size :  

Diameter : ca 23,4 cm 

Literature:

Cornelis Pronk was born in Amsterdam in 1691. From 1734 to 1740 he was employed by the Dutch East India Company (V.O.C.), which commissioned sets of drawings for Chinese and Japanese porcelain. In 'Pronk Porcelain', 1980, Groninger Museum Press pp.14-36, C. J. A. Jörg discusses in detail the four designs that are generally accepted to have been drafted by Pronk, the prototypes of which can be found in the Rijksmuseum.

It is likely that the design on this dish, known as 'Dame au Parasol', was the first to be completed, having been sent to China and Japan in 1736. Likely to have been completed in 1734, It is the only 'Pronk' design found in both Chinese and Japanese porcelain. This meticulously hand-decorated dish would have had a high production price, and as such only a small number of Pronk pieces were ever made. Pronk pieces are therefore highly prized and extremely rare.