Amsterdam No. 3 / Amsteldam / Amstelredamum

A.W. Weissman's De Oude Kerk te Amsterdam reports a copper font sold for scrap metal: This chapel had a copper baptismal font, which, according to WAGENAAR, was built in 1531 and was cast by CORNELIS VAN DEN EYNDE in Mechelen. The chapel was probably only completed then, which is not contradicted by its style. It is certainly not risky to assume that CORNELIS VAN DEN EYNDE and GILLIS VAN DEN ENDE, who poured the famous baptismal font of the St. Walburgskerk in Zutphen in 1525, were related, unless the same person is meant here. That the font in Amsterdam also has a high lid, like the one at Zutphen, is evidenced by the still present thumbs in the wall where the iron crane turned, which served to lift the lid. [NB: there must have been a font here at the time Rembrand's children were baptised in this church, perhaps in the font that was later destroyed].