Laurens Oxsen (circle of)
Batavia, 1667
bronze
total: length 136 cm × diameter 33.5 cm
length 14.5 cm
length 121.5 cm
calibre 6.7 cm × weight 210 kg
muzzle-vent: length 112 cm
diameter 7.6 cm
base ring: diameter 22.3 cm
trunnion: diameter 6.7 cm
barrel: diameter 13.3 cm × diameter 20.5 cm
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1104
Copyright: Public domain
Bronze muzzle-loading gun of a European type.
It has a wreath-shaped muzzle, muzzle astragal fillets, chase astragal fillets, second reinforcement mouldings, dolphins and trunnions, first reinforcement mouldings, vent astragal fillets, base mouldings, a flat breech base and a bud-shaped cascabel button. To each side of the vent, which is surrounded by a rectangular rim, a button on which a vent cover can be secured is positioned. On the first reinforcement an oval cartouche is depicted, with the monogram of the Amsterdam chamber of the Dutch East India Company and inscriptions. Where the dolphins are moulded, the gun is decorated with diamond-shaped motifs. The breech is decorated with point motifs.
This gun was captured during the Djambi expedition in August 1858. The mark ‘D’ mentioned in the inventory1 could not be found.
It is possible that the gun was manufactured in the circle of Laurens Oxsen, who, originally from Schleswig-Holstein, from 1656 onwards manufactured guns for the Dutch East India Company in Batavia.2
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1104; E. Sint Nicolaas, ‘Drie “Indische kanonnen” en hun geschiedenis, Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 55 (2007), pp. 40-57
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'circle of Laurens Oxsen, Gun, Batavia, 1667', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244919
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