Dish on footring, spreading sides. Originally unpainted, decorated in The Netherlands with iron-red, green, blue, black and gold with a basket with an overhead handle filled with flowers on a veranda and two insects. On the sides two large panels with rocks, a hedge, a flowering prunus tree and a bird on a fence. In two smaller medallions a fisherman in a boat and two houses on the riverbank. Between the panels foliate scrolls. The reverse is undecorated. This type of decorated Chinese and Japanese porcelain was called 'Amsterdams Bont' in 18th-century Holland and varied greatly in quality. This splendid piece shows a number of elements that characterise Amsterdams Bont, namely the basket, the fisherman near the guard-post and the semi-Japanese Kakiemon decoration with a banded hedge, flowering prunus and a bird on a branch. The depiction has been applied to a blank white dish especially imported from China for decoration in Holland. Little is known about the workshops where the overdecorating occurred, but the craftsmanship indicates that it may have been applied in Delft.