A Dutch Delft doré large dish, early 18th century

by Pieter Adriaensz Kocx, painted in the Imari palette 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 mark for Pieter Adriaensz Kocx, owner of the De Grieksche A (The Greek A) factory,

PAN, Amsterdam, 1963.

In good appearance, and generally good condition. The dish has three rim chips, located at 1, 2, and 7 o'clock on the clock face, the largest at 2 o'clock is approximately 1cm wide, visible in the catalogue illustration. Otherwise some minor typical glaze loss to rim.
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A dish of this large size is published by M.S. van Aaken-Fehmers, et al. Delfts Aardewerk, Geschiedenis van een nationaal product, Zwolle, 1999, p. 123, no. 31.