187. A pair of Imari-style plates with ‘Parasol ladies’ after Cornelis Pronk, Qianlong period.

With the pattern in Chinese Imari colors, showing a lady standing before water birds as her attendant shades her with the parasol, the honeycomb border interrupted by lady and bird cartouches.

See R.W. Fuchs, op. cit., p. 62 for an illustration of Cornelis Pronk’s original design for this pattern, now in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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