Dish on footring, wide, slightly upturned flat rim. On the base two spur-marks. An underglaze-blue decoration of a pond with large flowers, a butterfly and a deer on the shore lowering its head to drink. On the rim wide and narrow panels filled with flowering plants and auspicious symbols. The reverse is undecorated. The shape and style were copied from a Chinese kraak porcelain example, but this representation of a deer by a lake has not been encountered on Chinese pieces. The double peach spray of kraak porcelain has been changed into a plant with two flowers. A comparable dish in the Princessehof Museum in Leeuwarden has the incised mark of August the Strong and is originally from his collection in Dresden (Harrisson). Dishes 'with deer' formed part of the VOC shipments from Japan in 1679 and 1681 (Viallé).