Dish on footring, wide, slightly upturned flat rim. On the base five spur-marks. Decorated in underglaze blue with a star-shaped medallion containing a decoration of a river scene with a cricket on a rock and flowering plants. In the remaining space around the medallion geometric patterns. On the sides and rim wide panels with a stylised flower alternating with various auspicious symbols, such as the shell, the artemisia leaf and the fly-whisk. In between narrow panels with strings of beads. On the reverse a continuous pattern of scrolls and stylised flowers. The shape and style of this piece were closely copied from a Chinese kraak porcelain dish. The Japanese hand is only recognisable in the more formal, less detailed style seen in the flowers at right. Moreover, the porcelain is heavier and thicker than kraak porcelain, the blue is darker and the body greyer. As the /…{}, cat. 123, this piece of export porcelain for The Netherlands was also intended to compensate for the shortfall in Chinese kraak porcelain.