Image scanned and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Plate

Artist Unknown

CultureChinese | Kang Xi | Qing Dynasty

Date1690-1699

MediumPorcelain | Underglaze | enamels

DimensionsOverall: 1 1/8 x 8 in. (2.9 x 20.3 cm)

InscribedUnderglaze blue six character mark of ChengHua (1465-87) on bottom. German mark engraved into glaze on bottom, black filling. "N:414M"

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.167

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 204

DescriptionDish depicting the scene of the Costerman Revolt. Dish has wide flared rim with design of square diaper and four floral reserves (one also contains two paintbrushes). Cavetto plain; interior has scene of men pulling down a house with one man climbing up a ladder, another on the roof, other inside with long handled tools. To the right are four tall pointed building facades with many windows; several people hold line which attach roof peak. In foreground a man sits astride boxes covered with thatch-like material. A cannon is partly seen to right. Simple floral scrolls with a clover design encircle exterior with double blue lines at foot. Inventory marks of Augustus the Strong, Dresden Germany.

Label TextChinese Export Plate, circa 1695-1700 Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.167 The decoration on this plate illustrates the demolished house of Jacob van Zuyken van Nyevelt, the first sheriff of Rotterdam, and it is one of the earliest designs derived from Western sources to be depicted on Chinese export porcelain. Van Nyevelt's house was attacked by a mob in 1690 during a riot sparked by the death sentence of Cornelis Costerman. Costerman had killed the servant of a tax collector in a fight caused by his refusal to pay excise-duty on a cask of wine. Medals were struck commemorating the so-called "Tumult of Rotterdam" or "Costerman Revolt." One of these medals was transported to China where it served as the basis for a design on plates, cups, and saucers. Exhibition History"China Trade Porcelain from the Collection of the Chyrsler Museum of Art" Chrysler Museum of Art, July 19, 1997 - October 30, 1998. Published ReferencesFor explanation and illustration of the medal this subject was copied from see Scheurleer, CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN, 1974, p. 97, illus. 131.