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Maître Brice Pescheteau-Badin
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CHINA
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234
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CHINA
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,500 - €3,500
Voluntary lot
Description
CHINA
A set of three porcelain vases, one in the shape of a baluster bottle and the other two in the shape of a trumpet vase, decorated in polychrome ‘Famille Rose’ enamels with a parrot holding cherries perched on a perch, after Cornelis Pronk.
18th century, Qianlong period (1735–1796), c. 1740.
Height: 28 cm.
A small chip at the base of the baluster-shaped vase; a restored chip on the neck of one of the cornet-shaped vases; restorations
In the 1730s, the VOC (Dutch East India Company) began producing porcelain of the very highest quality in China, based on specific designs produced in the West in the Chinese style. In August 1734, it commissioned Cornelis Pronk (1691–1759), the famous Dutch ornamentalist, to design patterns for Chinese porcelain. Over the course of three and a half years, he produced four series of designs which were sent to Batavia. The designs subsequently reached Canton. Some are held at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Several other designs have been attributed to him; nine are listed by David S. Howard and John Ayers in *China for the West*, vol. I, p. 294, where other designs attributable to Pronk are also discussed. A trumpet-shaped vase with the same decoration is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, c46-1951, and a pair of baluster vases is illustrated by Mary Salgado Lobo Antunes in *Porcelanas e Vidros*, Fundação Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva, Museo-Escola de Artes Decorativas Portuguesas, Lisbon 1999, pp. 74–75.
A bowl of this type from the Martin Hurst collection is illustrated by G. Williamson, *The Book of Famille Rose*, 1970, pl. XLII. A set of five vases featuring this motif is held at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem.
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