Circa 1740, porcelain hand painted in Imari palette to the center with Cornelis Pronk's famous design of a lady standing before waterbirds as her attendant shades her with a parasol, the wide rims with alternating cartouches of figures and birds amidst flora on an iron red honeycomb ground, the underside of rim decorated with blue insects.

9 1/4 in. diameter

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

J. Rochelle Thomas, Inc. New York

The "La Dame au Parasol" pattern was one of four designs commissioned by the Dutch East India Company from the Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759), who was sent to Canton to design services for Export. The original "La Dame au Parasol" watercolor by Pronk, executed in 1734, is rendered on Chinese Export porcelain in the blue and white, Imari, and famille-rose palettes.

In very good estate condition, one having a small loss at rim.