A Chinese export famille-rose 'arbor' pattern plate circa 1740

painted after Cornelis Pronk in the center with a seated lady with her attendant beneath a topiary arbor with a boy peering behind the right column, three boys at play in front of the left column observing ducks in a pond, the rim with twelve oval shaped cartouches painted with insects, flowers and fruits interspersed with shells and plamette motifs in iron red, all reserved on a turquoise diaper ground

Christie's London, March 7-8, 1984, lot 220