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 (rim chip), Chenghua six character mark, Kangxi

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

Cf. the British Museum example, illustrated by M. Beurdely, op. cit., 170; Sir H. Garner, op. cit., pl. 68; D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., p. 60, pl. 15; Clare 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.