A PAIR OF EXPORT 'ARBOR PATTERN' PLATESCirca 1740
The central design based on a painting by Cornelis Pronk depicting a lady seated with her attendant beneath a topiary arbor surrounded by four children beside a lotus pond, enclosed within a border of twelve shaped reserves painted with insects, flowers and fruits against a pale green diaper ground incorporating shells and palmettes in iron red, the underside of the rim painted in iron-red and blue enamel with a stylized spearhead border.
9 1/8in (23cm) diam. (2).