Lot 60
60
A BLUE AND WHITE 'ROTTERDAM RIOTS' PLATE
A BLUE AND WHITE 'ROTTERDAM RIOTS' PLATE

CIRCA 1691-95

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'ROTTERDAM RIOTS' PLATE
Circa 1691-95
Showing a Dutch streetscape with the rioters dismantling the hated Chief Bailiff's house, some wielding axes and others attaching a pulley to a ladder, the back with a border of formal lotus scroll and wan characters, six-character Chenghua mark in the center
8in. (20.3cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Commemorating an October 1690 popular uprising of Rotterdam citizens outraged at the execution of Cornelis Kosterman, a Civil Guard soldier, that had been ordered by Chief Bailiff Jacob van Zuylen van Nyevelt; the scene taken from a commemorative medal struck in 1690. See C. Le Corbeiller, Patterns of Exchange, p. 31.