A pair of Japanese Imari-ware 'La Dame au Parasol' plates Edo period...
A pair of Japanese Imari-ware 'La Dame au Parasol' plates
Edo period
Each painted in underglaze blue and enamelled and gilt to the centre with an elegant lady wearing a kimono, and her maidservant holding a parasol, the reverse with seven iron-red insects, 22.5cm diameter each (2).
Provenance: K. Main Collection, J-22 (label associated to one plate).
The Dame au Parasol is one of the most famous designs by Cornelis Pronk, the famous Dutch draughtsman and porcelain designer. He was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to produce a number of designs to be produced by Chinese and Japanese potters; the Dame au Parasol is the only design known to exist in both Chinese and Japanese porcelain.
According to contemporary sources it was not possible to agree a reasonable price with Japanese potters, so no orders were made; a few plates of this design are however known, and in Museum collections worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) or the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Gift of Leo and Doris Hodroff), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New-York). Cf. C.J.A. Jorg, Pronk Porcelain, pp. 71-3; T. Volker, The Japanese Porcelain Trade of the Dutch East India Company after 1683, (Leiden, 1959), p. 78-81.
For a similar example, see Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, (London, 1965), pl. 46A.
Condition Report:
Expected light wear consistent with age and firing imperfections consistent with type, including some spots of crazing to glaze.
One dish with approx. 8x5.5cm U-shaped rim section broken off and restored, with circular infills to the reverse to suggest it was possibly originally riveted.
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A pair of Japanese Imari-ware 'La Dame au Parasol' plates
Edo period
Each painted in underglaze blue and enamelled and gilt to the centre with an elegant lady wearing a kimono, and her maidservant holding a parasol, the reverse with seven iron-red insects, 22.5cm diameter each (2).
Provenance: K. Main Collection, J-22 (label associated to one plate).
The Dame au Parasol is one of the most famous designs by Cornelis Pronk, the famous Dutch draughtsman and porcelain designer. He was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to produce a number of designs to be produced by Chinese and Japanese potters; the Dame au Parasol is the only design known to exist in both Chinese and Japanese porcelain.
According to contemporary sources it was not possible to agree a reasonable price with Japanese potters, so no orders were made; a few plates of this design are however known, and in Museum collections worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) or the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Gift of Leo and Doris Hodroff), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New-York). Cf. C.J.A. Jorg, Pronk Porcelain, pp. 71-3; T. Volker, The Japanese Porcelain Trade of the Dutch East India Company after 1683, (Leiden, 1959), p. 78-81.
For a similar example, see Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, (London, 1965), pl. 46A.
Condition Report:
Expected light wear consistent with age and firing imperfections consistent with type, including some spots of crazing to glaze.
One dish with approx. 8x5.5cm U-shaped rim section broken off and restored, with circular infills to the reverse to suggest it was possibly originally riveted.
