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Title: Plate depicting a lady with parasol
Caption: Plate depicting a lady with parasol. Artist: After a design by Cornelis Pronk (Dutch, Amsterdam 1691-1759 Amsterdam). Culture: Chinese, for Dutch market. Dimensions: Overall: 4 1/8 × 19 1/2 in. (10.5 × 49.5 cm). Date: ca. 1734-37.
The Dutch East India Company, which dominated the export of Chinese porcelains to Europe in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, commissioned the Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759) to supply designs that could be copied on porcelain intended for export. This design of a lady with a parasol was one of Pronk's most popular compositions, and was employed by Japanese porcelain painters as well.
Technique/material: Hard-paste porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit: Album
Image size: 3212 × 4283 px | 39.4 MB
Print size: 27.2 × 36.3 cm | 1264.6 × 1686.2 in (300 dpi)