Rijksmuseum

Drie suiker- of strooppotten van een Rotterdamse suikerraffinaderij

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Date

1700 - 1841

Medium

terracotta (clay material)

Culture

Netherlands

Institution

Rijksmuseum

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.

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