AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE “DAME AU PARASOL” PLATE

mid-18th century, after a design by Cornelius Pronk, painted in underglaze blue with a lady accompanied by an Oriental figure holding a parasol within a band of floral sprigs and a cell and diaper border, 21.5cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Sotheby’s, 19th April 2000, The Gillingham Collection, lot 157.

Exhibited: “World in Blue and White”, OCS, June 2003, no. 14.