Kettle on footring, the body lightly moulded into eight vertical panels, S-shaped spout and overhead fixed handle. Wide, low mouthrim with one notch for a bayonet cover-ring, domed lid (without a bayonet ring) with a knob shaped as a fruit. Kraak porcelain, decorated in underglaze blue. In the eight vertical panels alternate depictions of a figure sitting on a tabouret on a veranda and a large flowering peony or chrysanthemum. On the spout flame motifs, on the handle flower scrolls, on the shoulder and lid fish-scale patterns and four panels with a flower. Tea was still unknown in The Netherlands during the first half of the 17th century. Such kettles, relatively many of which survive in Dutch collections, probably contained warm wine. Seven of them were found in the wreck of the Witte Leeuw (1613). Unlike other types of kraak porcelain, it appears that the decorations applied to kettles did not vary much. Some kettles have openings in the mouthrim for a bayonet mount, which ensured that the lid did not fall off while pouring; these are lacking on others. Therefore, it is not certain if this is the matching lid.