Rare 1700 Kangxi Chinese "Deshima Island" Porcelain Plate. Good condition; a few frits to outside edge, starcrack to base. Diameter 7 3/4 inches (20 cm.). Note: The view on this well-known pattern has long been called Deshima Island (near Nagasaki), the V.O.C. headquarters in Japan from 1641-1862, but more likely depicts the Dutch coastal town Scheveningen. For another example in the Hodroff Collection in the Winterthur Museum, see Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 44, no. 11. another in the Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1985, lot 22.