Dish in the shape of a ‘klapmuts’ on footring, flat rim, lobed edge. An underglaze blue decoration of a garden landscape with a Chinese lady standing before a table with an incense burner. Behind her a servant holding up a large fan. A crane in the sky, two small white hares in the grass to the left. On the rim and sides eight panels containing a flower spray alternating with two sitting women in a landscape conversing. The panels are separated by a diaper pattern. On the reverse of the rim eight foliate sprays with a flower, on the reverse of the sides eight large ruyi motifs. On the base the six-character mark Kangxi in a double circle. The ‘klapmuts’ shape, a deep, bowl-shaped dish with wide flat rim, is derived from kraak porcelain, as is the panelling of the rim and sides. The use of this shape conforms to the kraak revival at the end of the 17th century (see also cat. 52). However, the representation is characteristic of Kangxi porcelain, which has multiple depictions of slender women engaged in some form of activity in a landscape or on a veranda. In The Netherlands, such figures were called ‘lange lijzen’, translated in English as “long Eliza’s”. The hares and crane sym...