Notes:
The view is thought to depict the Dutch coastal town Scheveningen, possibly inspired by a Dutch Delft plate by the well-known pottery painter Frederick van Frytom (1652-1702). A Japanese Arita dish painted with a similar landscape included in the 'Exhibition Interaction in Ceramics, Oriental Porcelain and Delftware', Hong Kong, 1984, Catalogue, no. 65, is known in the Netherlands as a 'View of Scheveningen' and is also illustrated by Howard & Ayers, ‘China for the West’, fig. 32a. This scene has also been referred to as Deshima Island, near Nagasaki, which was the V.O.C.'s headquarters in Japan from 1641-1862, but considering the stylistic similarities with the Delft prototypes and the characteristically Dutch details of this scene, this scene is unlikely to be of Deshima Island
