The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Wittekoe, Jan Cornelisz.		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	424
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	565A, fol. 24, film 6546
Date	1646/12/14
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Notarial
Purpose	death inventory
Family Name	Wittekoe
Owner Name	Wittekoe, Jan Cornelisz.
Occupation	Retail merchant |a Faience, porcelain
Residence	Aende Lindegraft in Amsterdam
Introduction	Staet ende inventaris vanden Boedel ende goederen van wijlen Jan Corneliss Wittekoe, poorter deser stede, in sijn leven gewoont hebbende aende Lindegraft, gelijck hij deselve metten doodt ontruijmt heeft, ende nae sijn overlijden bevonden, beschreven door mij Jacobo Westfrisio, openbaere Notaris bij den Hove van Hollant geadmitteert, 't Amsterdam residerende, ter requisitie van Warner Wijerts, testamentaire executeur vande overledens testament ende geordonneerde Administrateur over sijne onmondige ende andere geinstitueerde erffgenamen verbondene goederen, mitsgaders Gerrit Janssen Wittekoe ende Cornelis Wijbrandts Diephout, als bij de E. Heeren Schepenen gesurrogeerde Executeurs vant selve testament, in plaetse van Sijmen Claessen laackenkoper, ende voorsooveele den inboel belanght bij Aeltien Claes ende Annetien Hendricx beijde geswooren schatsers getaxeert, sijnde tselve als volcht.
Commentary	Jan Cornelisz. Wittekoe was a dealer in porcelain, which probably included earthenware. There were 62 pieces of porcelain in his inventory, scattered through most of the rooms of his house, valued at 225 f. On 24 December 1609, the Orphan Chamber held an auction sale at the request of Jan Cornelis Witte Koe, living in Dwarstraet behind Dirck de Vlaming (WK 5073/966). He was married to Fytge Claes (cf. the portrait of the couple in INVNO 425, LOT 0013). Jan Cornelisz. Wittekoe was the father of Gerrit Jansz. Wittikoe of INVNO 425, cited as one of the executors of his father's testament in the INTRO. Jan Cornelis Wittekoe paid a tax of 100 f. in 1631, at which time he lived near the Nieuwendijck over de sluijs (Kohier, fol. 81vo, p. 20). Jan Jansz. Wittekoe, who was probably the son of Jan Cornelis and the brother of Gerrit Jansz., was 20 years old when he appeared as a deponent in an act of 14 December 1638. He and Jan van der Meulen, also 20, servants (i.e. employees or apprentices) of Marten van Halewijn of R 25443, testified about a pepper shipment at the request of their master (NA 834). Finally Cornelis Jansz. Wittekoe, merchant, who was presumably also a son of Jan Cornelisz. Wittekoe, requested a deposition on 1 June 1632 from the bookseller Petrus Poppius, in which Poppius declared that Mathys Baers had been doing business with him, Wittekoe (NA 371, fol. 67).
Notary	J. Westfrisius
Appraiser	Aeltien Claes and Annetien Hendricx
Total Value	1523 |d
Art Value	44 |d 15 stuivers
# of Items	24
Montias1 #	325