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Plate (Dinner plate)
Lady with the Parasol (or Le Dame au Parasol)
Cornelis Pronk
1736-1740
Category
Ceramics
Creator/Artist/Maker
Cornelis Pronk (Designer)
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
2000.0061.021
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Leo A. and Doris C. Hodroff
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Object Number
2000.0061.021
Object Name
Plate (Dinner plate)
Title
Lady with the Parasol (or Le Dame au Parasol)
Category
Ceramics
Creator (Role)
Cornelis Pronk (Designer)
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Date
1736-1740
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: Red, rounded rectangular paper labelt with "4" in white lettering
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: White, rectangular paper label with "PLATE-BLUE + WHITE PRONK/9" DIA. ATTEND. HOLDING/PARASOL- W/3 EXOTIC BIRDS/8 BORDER PANELS- WOMEN/+ BIRDS- CELL PATTERN/CIRCA 1740 4035" handwritten in black and red ink
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: White, rectangular paper label with no text
Mark/Signature: No
Subject(s)
- Dutch market (Chinese export)
- East India Company (Dutch) association
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
1.181 (H) x 9.173 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
3 (H) x 23.3 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Fuchs, Ronald W. & Howard, David Sanctuary. 2005 Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur. 208 p.
• Published: p. 62Book: Howard, David Sanctuary. 1994 The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated from the Hodroff Collection.
• Published: p. 73Book: Sargent, William R. 2012 Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics at the Peabody Essex Museum.
• Polychrome tureen and underdish in same pattern: pp. 277-79, no. 143, providing details, 1770-75Book: Jorg, Christian J.A. Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing Dynasties.
• Same "Parasol Lady" central reserve, and general layout to border, but in polychrome enamels (different palette): p. 282, no. 328, with design source. Different border reserve subjects. 1736-38.Book: Sargent, William R. 2012 Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics at the Peabody Essex Museum.
• Later polychrome plate and tureen and stand in same pattern: p. 277-79, no. 143, discussing 1730s versions designed by Pronk and later imitations, like these. c. 1770-75.Book: Esten, John, et al. 1987 Blue & White China: Origins /Western Influences.
• Discussion and illustration of Pronk's pattern for the "parasol lady" design: pp.76-77, also blue and white cup and saucer in same pattern.Catalogue: Motley, William & Cohen & Cohen. 2014 Hit & Myth.
• Fairly in-depth discussion of "Dame au Parasol" design and similarly patterned polychrome enameled plate: p. 70, no. 39, Qianlong period, 1736.Catalogue: Motley, William & Cohen & Cohen. 2014 Hit & Myth.
• Several pieces with Dame au Parasol motif: pp. 72-79, nos. 40-45, including coffeepot, plates, butter dish, and scaloped dish, painted in different details.Book: Impey, Oliver. 2002 Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
• Two Japanese porcelain plates with variations on The Lady with the Parasol pattern: pp. 242-43, nos. 427-28, both 18th century, no. 427 "after 1737," and no. 428 "after 1733."Book: Le Corbeiller, Clare. 1974 China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange.
• Blue and white and polychrome dishes in same pattern with Pronk designs, Japanese and Venetian porcelain versions: pp. 54-57, no. 24, figs. 19-22.