Inkstand with the coats of arms of Leiden, Delft and William III
Also titled Inktstel met de wapens van Leiden, van Delft en van Willem III
c. 1670 - c. 1680
- Medium
- earthenware, tin glaze, faience, silver (metal)
- Classification
- inkstand
- Dimensions
- height 15 cm x width 21.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the heirs of J.F. Loudon, The Hague
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This inkstand was made for the Orangist Jan Knotter, a bargeman who was granted the right to navigate between Leiden and Delft in 1675. The arms of Leiden and Delft held up by lions, and the water landscape on the back allude to the barge service, and the inscription and the arms of William III to Knotter’s political loyalties.
