Jachthoorn
Also titled Hunting horn
Johannes Mattheus van Kempen (1814–1877)
1849
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- case
- Dimensions
- diameter 16.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds donated by H.B. van der Ven, The Hague
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
In 1849 King William II presented this horn as a prize for the fastest hunter at Het Loo Palace. Its shape is derived from an ox horn, and is embellished with both predators and prey. Concealed in the asymmetrical Rococo scrolls are a red deer beset by a hound, a fox cornered by a pair of lions, and a hooded falcon waits to hunt its prey.
