a gilt bronze commemorative plaque

CAST FROM A MODEL BY HENDRIKUS JACOBUS ESHUYS, MANUFACTURED BY N.V. VAN DER KOLF EN MOLIJN, ROTTERDAM, 1928

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a gilt bronze commemorative plaque
Cast from a model by Hendrikus Jacobus Eshuys, manufactured by N.V. Van Der Kolf en Molijn, Rotterdam, 1928
Of circular form, depicting the coat of Rotterdam flanked on the left by houses and a factory with fuming pipes and on the right by a steam ship, inscribed 600 Jarig Bestaan Rotterdam 1328-1928
24cm. diam.
Signed with artist's monogram HE

拍品專文

In 1928 the Rotterdam bronze- and copperwork firm N.V. van der Kolf en Molijn, gave a plaque, which had been designed by Eshuys and executed in their workshop, to the city of Rotterdam to celebrate the sixth centenary of the city. One hundred and fifty of these plaques were made

Cf. Rotterdams Nieuwsblad, 16 August, 1928, for an article and an illustration of the plaque