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Plate with everted rim, the base with three spur marks. In a central octagonal medallion edged by various diapers, among flowers a cricket on a rock at a river. On the well and the rim in Chinese kraak style eight panels with peaches alternating with antiquities, divided by narrow panels with pearl strings and diapers. The reverse sketchily painted with emblems in circles within panels.
This is the kind of dish the Japanese produced for the VOC when they were requested to produce porcelain as the Old Chinese porcelain. The Chinese kraak style was mostly used on open forms. Excavations in Southeast Asia have brought to light that these porcelains were also exported there on a large scale. The cricket on a rock, seen on this dish, is a common motif on Kraak porcelain and the scene was therefore naturally copied in Japan. An almost identical dish is in the Jan Menze van Diepen Collection in Slochteren.
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