RARE SET OF SIX PINK FAMILY PORCELAIN PLATES LA DAME AU PARASOL, CHINE DE COMMANDE, 18TH CENTURY, CIRCA 1736-38 Painted after a design by Cornelis Pronk with an Oriental lady and her parasol-bearing attendant watching three colourful waterbirds within a honeycomb diaper border reserved with vignettes of figures and pink enamel cell pattern border, the underside with border of iron-red insects. In very good conditions, unless one broken on one side of the rim in three pieces during shipping. 2 plates 26,5 cm diam., 3,5 cm high 2 plates 25 cm diam., 3,2 cm high (one broken) 1 saucer dish 24 cm diam., 4 cm high (one hairline of 3 cm) 1 saucer dish 21,8 cm diam., 3,5 cm high. (6) A RARE PART DINNER SERVICE FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN LA DAME AU PARASOL, CHINE DE COMMANDE, 18TH CENTURY, CIRCA 1736-38 (6) Note: in 1734 the directors of Holland's VOC commissioned Amsterdam artist Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759) to create four patterns for Chinese porcelain. Pronk¿s drawings were sent to VOC headquarters in Batavia (later Java) and then on to Canton in 1736. Pronk created distinctive scenes and motifs that were then produced by the Chinese workshops in differing quantities of Famille Rose enamels, blue and white and Chinese Imari. The first and best-known of the Pronk patterns is known as La Dame au Parasol. Provenance: from an important Milanese mansion