CIRCA 1690-95

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'ROTTERDAM RIOT' PLATE
Circa 1690-95
Painted with Dutchmen climbing a ladder and demolishing a building, four typically Dutch gabled buildings in the background, within a trellis-pattern border reserved with cartouches of fruit and emblems, the reverse with long-life symbols above formal interlocking pomegranate, encircled Chenghua six-character mark on the base
8 in. (20 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 July 1980, Lot 181 (pair) (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-15).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A similar plate is being offered, as part of the Dreesmann Collection, at Christie's, Amsterdam, 16 April 2002, Lot 1301.

This plate depicts the demolition of the house belonging to the Chief Baillif, Jacob Zuylen van Myevelt, on 4 October 1690, during the riots in Rotterdam, which were sparked off after the brutal execution of Cornelis Kosterman, a young guard at the City Hall, who the townspeople believed was innocent. The design derives from a medal struck in silver by Jan Smeltzing after an engraving by Gerard van Loon to commemorate the riots. Similar plates are in the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, and the Museum Boymans van Beuningen.

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