Live Auction 2848European Noble and Private Collections incl. Fine Paintings
A Chinese blue and white 'Rotterdam Riot' plate and a silver medal
Lot 773

A Chinese blue and white 'Rotterdam Riot' plate and a silver medal

THE PLATE WITH CHENGHUA SIX CHARACTER MARK, KANGXI

Closed16 December 2010

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A Chinese blue and white 'Rotterdam Riot' plate and a silver medal
The plate with Chenghua six character mark, Kangxi
The plate and medal both decorated with a scene showing the attack on the residence of Van Zuylen van Nijevelt, chief bailiff of Rotterdam, some figures dismantling beams and masonry, others scaling ladders or spilling bales of merchandise into the street near a cannon, the rim with floral cartouches on a diaper-pattern ground, the medal inscribed UBI INTERFICERE FAS EST, IBI DESTRUERE and iac:suyle a nyevelt praet: rott:domi destructio. d. 6 octob: 1690.
20 cm. diam.; 5.5 cm. diam., mounted in wood (2)

From the collection of F. Bodenheim, Amsterdam.

Specialist note

This plate depicts the demolition of the house belonging to the Chief Baillif, Jacob Zuylen van Nyevelt, on 4 October 1690, during the riots in Rotterdam, which were sparked off after the brutal execution of Cornelis Kosterman, a young guard at the City Hall, who the townspeople believed was innocent. The design derives from a medal struck in silver by Jan Schmeltzing after an engraving by Gerard van Loon to commemorate the riots, of which an example is inlcuded in this lot. Similar plates are in the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, and the Museum Boymans van Beuningen.