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Three sugar or syrup pots from a Rotterdam sugar refinery
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
These pots were excavated in Rotterdam in 2021, at the site where the Van Beeftingh family lived in the 19th century. They were active in sugar refining. Raw sugar, cultivated and processed by people in slavery in Surinam, was refined in the Netherlands into syrup and table sugar. The syrupy mass was poured through a funnel into earthenware pots like these ones to drain.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineDrie suiker- of strooppotten van een Rotterdamse suikerraffinaderij. 1700 - 1841. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
