Drinking horn from the Amsterdam Company of Arquebusiers
Also titled Drinkhoorn van het Amsterdamse kloveniersgilde
Arent Cornelisz Coster (Amsterdam, died 1563)
1547
- Medium
- buffelhoorn, silver (metal)
- Classification
- drinking horn
- Dimensions
- height 38 cm x width 61 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This luxury drinking horn played a prominent role in civic guard ceremonies. The horn was passed around the table and everyone drank from it. In this way, the militiamen expressed their common bond and unity. The claws in the silver mount are the symbol of the arquebusiers.
