Lot 42
42
A BLUE AND WHITE 'ROTTERDAM RIOT' PLATE painted with a scene of figures demolishing the house of bailiff van Zuylen van Nyevelt with a cannon in the foreground, a trellis-pattern border reserved with cartouches of Daoist emblems encircling the rim, an interlocking lotus scroll on the reverse, Chenghua six character mark, Kangxi

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'ROTTERDAM RIOT' PLATE painted with a scene of figures demolishing the house of bailiff van Zuylen van Nyevelt with a cannon in the foreground, a trellis-pattern border reserved with cartouches of Daoist emblems encircling the rim, an interlocking lotus scroll on the reverse, Chenghua six character mark, Kangxi
20.2 cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The subject is taken from a silver medal struck by Jan Smeltzing (1656-1693) after an engraving by Van Loon.

Cf. The British Museum example, illustrated by M. Beurdeley, op. cit., 170; Sir H. Garner, op. cit., pl. 68; D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., p. 60, pl. 15; Claire de Corbeiller, op. cit., pp. 31-32, where the medal is also illustrated, Leeuwarden, Gemeentelijk Museum het Princessehof, together with the medal, Asian Ceramics, p. 90, pl. 99; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen and Historisch Museum.

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