Object data
wood, brass and paint
model: height 45.1 cm × width 29.4 cm × depth 26.3 cm
packaging capsule: height 50 cm × width 33.5 cm × depth 29.5 cm
Rijkswerf Rotterdam (possibly)
Model of a Heating Furnace
? Rotterdam, c. 1820 - c. 1850
Inscriptions
- label, on the chimney: 53 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-53
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Construction model of a heating furnace, consisting of a furnace building and a chimney. The model is painted white all over and is incomplete. A structure of laths around the building represents strengthening irons. The model can be taken apart in two halves to examine the internal corridor system. To one side there is the furnace with a grating and a small door; the opening at the other side is much larger, destined for the metal objects that need to be heated. Furnace and oven are only separated by a difference in level: the heated air and smoke go from the furnace directly into the oven, then through two downward-slanting passageways at the sides back to a passageway underneath the heating room, and from there to the chimney.
This heating furnace to harden metal objects was installed on the former Navy dockyard in Rotterdam,1 which was closed down in 1850.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 53
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'possibly Rijkswerf Rotterdam, Model of a Heating Furnace, Rotterdam, c. 1820 - c. 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242778
(accessed 23 November 2024 15:11:16).