Kendi on footring, the long, spreading neck fixed to the shoulder with a double rib, wide-spreading flat mouthrim. On the shoulder a short flattened globular spout with a silver mount as a lid. Covered with an even underglaze dark brown. Decorated in underglaze-blue, iron-red, green black and gold with flowering plants in the four scalloped medallions on the body, in the two leaf-shaped panels on the neck and in the two small medallions on the spout. Around the inside of the rim three bands: one with ruyi motifs in blue, the second with a zigzag pattern and the last with curved pointed red lines. On the brown enamel traces of a decoration of flowering plants in gold. In The Netherlands, porcelain decorated in this type of underglaze dark brown has historically been called ‘Batavia Brown’ or ‘Capucijnergoed’ (‘Chick-pea ware’, after the legume). The first name may have been coined because most goods exported to The Netherlands from the East were sent via Batavia and has nothing to do with a Batavian production or decoration. It is a very common type with the decorations usually contained within medallions. Occasionally, a gold decoration has been painted on the brown glaze. The ...