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Description A rare small Pronk 'plume' tea caddy
Qing Dynasty,?circa 1740
清 約1740年 外銷彩繪小罐
of baluster shape, painted around the body with two lavender palmette-shaped plumes highlighted in gilt and reserved on a yellow and black trellis-pattern ground,?after a design by Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759)
10.3 cm high
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Provenance James Stewart Hodgson (1827-1899);
Agatha, Marchioness of Sligo (1866-1965).
Notes Cornilis?Pronk was a Dutch draftsman?employed?by the Dutch East India Company to provide designs for Chinese porcelain?between 1734 and 40. A tea service with similar?decoration, formerly?in the collection of Helena Woolworth McCann, is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. no. 61.64), a single tea bowl and saucer is in the collection of the British Museum (acc. no. Franks. 588.a).