A pair of Dutch Delft doré pancake plates, early 18th century

by Pieter Adriaensz Kocx, painted in Japanese Imari style with an Oriental woman and a boy in a fenced garden flanked by a large pagoda building and table supporting a vase of flowering plants, iron-red PAK marks for Pieter Adriaensz Kocx, owner of the De Grieksche A (The Greek A) factory,

Both in very good condition. With less than usual minute glaze chips to rims only.
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For comparable illustrated examples and discussion see M.S van Aaken-Fehmers, et al, Delft Aardewerk, Geschiedenis van een nationaal product, Den Haag, 1999, pp. 121-23, nos. 29-31.