Qianlong period (1735-1795)
The dish is finely painted in the interior with a parrot holding a sprig of cherry in its talons as it stands chained to its perch suspended from a melon-shaped ornament, probably after a design by Cornelis Pronk.
The everted rim is painted with two borders of overlapping crested waves.
Diameter 16.2 cm
It is rare to find 'Pronk' designs on soft paste porcelain, which takes underglaze-blue painting especially well as in this example.
Commissioned by the East India Company, this decoration was probably not designed by Pronk, but made in the same workshop where Pronk's designs were executed.
BFE 58 清乾隆 青花鸚鵡滑石碟
時代：清乾隆，1735至1795年
特徵：軟瓷碟，邊緣飾兩周波浪紋，碟心畫栓在棲木上的鸚鵡用爪子抓著小串櫻桃，鳥架懸掛在一瓜形裝飾下方。此碟為東印度公司訂製，圖案或基於荷蘭知名瓷器設計師Cornelis Pronk所繪紋樣，並由專門執行Pronk設計的陶瓷工坊製作，珍罕稀有。
尺寸：直徑16.2公分
