Based on the trade between Europe and Asia in 18 th century, this essay offers are-evaluation of Lady with Parasol, a famous pattern on Chinese export porcelain by Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk. This pattern is designed for the Dutch East Indian Company for sending special porcelain order from China and plays an important role in the history of export porcelain. By rethinking the origin of Pronk’s design and the transformation of it on porcelain plates produced in China, Japan and Europe, this case reveals the life cycle of an image from design, delivery, production, accommodation to appropriation in a perspective of global history and transcultural communication, highlighting the creation and imagination of Exotic in cultural encounters.