Title(s)

Origingele beker van een hobo

Object type

• musical instrument
• wind instrument
• oboe

Object number

BK-2018-69-1

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘[kroon] / T. BOEKHOUT / [leeuw?] (slecht leesbaar)’

Description

De originele beker is in twee delen gebroken, alleen de helft is overgebleven.

Artist

• musical instrument maker: Thomas Coenrat Boekhout

Place

Amsterdam

Dating

c. 1700

Material

• boxwood

Measurements

length 14.5 cm × diameter 2.5 cm × diameter 5.6 cm

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery

Acquisition

purchase 19-Apr-2018

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Oboe (BK-2018-69)

• Dutch woodwind instruments and their makers 1660-1760, Jan Bouterse, p. 135, 206-207, 428, 435, 443, 446, 448, 495-497, 530, afb. 9.5, Qg13-25
• The eloquent oboe, Bruce Haynes, p. 466
• Hobo d'amore, Han de Vries (hoboïst), cat.nr. 2
• 4900 historical woodwind instruments, Phillip T. Young, p. 32
• Acquisitions, p. 76-79
• Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, 'The Rijksmuseum to acquire and display the Han De Vries collection of oboes', CIMCIM Bulletin, Jan. 2019, p. 22-24
• Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Makers of Double Reed Instruments in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', The Journal of the International Double Reed Society 24 (1996), p. 77-88: 83