The word “Kraak” was a name of the Portuguese ship given by the Europeans in the 17th century. The name was later also given to the Chinese cobalt-blue porcelains that came along with these ships. The Kraak porcelain is among the export wares in the China-Europe trade. Its well-known feature is the continuous auspicious patterns such as landscape, story characters, flowers and birds, fruits and “treasures of calligraphy” (i.e., writing materials). This plate has a lobed rim and is painted with lion and flower patterns.