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Cannon owned by the Van Reigersberg family
Also titled Kanonnen van de familie Van Reigersberg
Johannes Burgerhuys (died 1679)
1678
- Medium
- bronze (metal), iron (metal), oak (wood)
- Classification
- cannon
- Dimensions
- diameter 5.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
These cannons bear the coat of arms of the Van Reigersberg family of Zeeland and the inscription ‘Semper idem’ (always the same). Their presumed owner was Johan van Reigersberg, committee member for Zeeland in the Admiralty of Amsterdam and dike reeve of the Beemster polder. The cannons probably stood in his house, Molembaix, in Walcheren. The cannon decorations and herons and water plants on the carriages allude to the family name.
