A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN ‘DUTCH MARKET’ TOPOGRAPHICAL PLATE

See C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, p. 108 for a 1664 Dutch engraving of the Stadsherberg, which stood on the Amsterdam wharf from 1662 to 1872, as well as another plate painted with this subject in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (accession no. 64.267). In the words of David Howard and John Ayers, the Stadsherberg must have been where the V.O.C. sailors "spent their last hours before embarkation... and the first on their return" (D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, New York and London, 1978, vol. I, p. 193).