Title
Plate
Creator
Made in Arita, Japan
Date
1736-1740
Label
#218
Plate
Made in Arita, Japan, 1736-1740
Made of Hard-Paste Porcelain
Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by W. Groke Mickey
2015.3.1
In 1734, the Dutch East India Company hired the artist Cornelis Pronk “to make and deliver all the drawings and models to our satisfaction of such porcelains as shall from time to time be required from the Indies.”
Pronks designs, which blended exotic Asian elements, such as the women in robes and the parasol, with bulrushes and birds native to Europe, were sent first to China, and then to Japan, “to test out whether the same can be made in Japan ...[and] would yield good profits here at home.”The profits did not, however, materialize, and few were made.
This object is on display in the Japanese Export Gallery in the Reeves.
Plate
Made in Arita, Japan, 1736-1740
Made of Hard-Paste Porcelain
Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by W. Groke Mickey
2015.3.1
In 1734, the Dutch East India Company hired the artist Cornelis Pronk “to make and deliver all the drawings and models to our satisfaction of such porcelains as shall from time to time be required from the Indies.”
Pronks designs, which blended exotic Asian elements, such as the women in robes and the parasol, with bulrushes and birds native to Europe, were sent first to China, and then to Japan, “to test out whether the same can be made in Japan ...[and] would yield good profits here at home.”The profits did not, however, materialize, and few were made.
This object is on display in the Japanese Export Gallery in the Reeves.
Credit Line
Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by W. Groke Mickey
Citation
Made in Arita, Japan, “Plate,” Museums at Washington and Lee University: Online Exhibits, accessed May 17, 2024, https://exhibits-museums.omeka.wlu.edu/items/show/292.