1929.0335, Dish

Large Chinese porcelain dish on a footring, with steep curved sides and a sharply everted, upright, scalloped rim. Kraak porcelain, decorated in underglaze blue. In the centre a decagonal panel with swastika motifs and dark blue scalework on a light blue ground. The corners of the panel filled with a lozenge motif among dots. In the panel a small scalloped panel with two geese standing beneath lotus plants on a rocky plateau by a lake shore, looking at a bird flying overhead. On the sides ten roundels (not panels) linked by scrollwork and filled with a peacock-feather motif or with two overlapping symbols, such as a flywhisk and a scroll, a flywhisk and a double-gourd vase, a flywhisk with a jewel and a scroll, a jewel and a lotus blossom (as in the centre). The outside of the sides with ten panels filled with groups of dots.

The motif of ducks or geese on a rock in a waterscape is one of the most common decorations on Kraak ware. It was frequently imitated in Delft faience or used as a chinoiserie.