Dish on footring, wide, slightly upturned flat rim. On the base three spur-marks. An underglaze-blue decoration of a bird standing at the edge of an expanse of water with tail-feathers displayed; large flowering plants on either side. On the sides and rim a continuous pattern of a rocky ground with flowering prunus alternating with a pine tree separated by sections of bamboo. The reverse is undecorated. Here, an ingenious compositional solution has been found to the problem of how the effect of kraak porcelain with its panel-divisions around the rim can be maintained and how, at the same time, a more fashionable continuous rim decoration can be applied. The bamboo stems surrounded by foliage and placed on the continuous rocky ground form part of the rim decoration, but their symmetrical positioning and upright shape also function as dividing lines and suggest four panels, emphasised by repetitive prunus and pine trees. These may have been inspired by the rim decorations on Chinese kraak dishes of trees and bamboo painted in transitional style (Krahl & Ayers). As the /…, cat. 123{}, a bird standing at the water’s edge displaying its tail-feathers does not occur on kraak porcelai...