PROBABLY JAPANESE, LATE 17TH CENTURY

The view on this well-known pattern has long been called Deshima Island (near Nagasaki), V.O.C. headquarters in Japan from 1641-1862. But it probably depicts the Dutch coastal town Scheveningen, possibly inspired by a Dutch Delft plate by the well-known pottery painter Frederick van Frytom (1652-1702). Both Chinese and Japanese examples are known.