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omgeving van Laurens Oxsen, 1667

Na de verovering van Java (1825-1830) probeerden de Nederlanders ook de andere Indonesische eilanden en de omringende zeeën onder hun controle te brengen. Met militaire expedities dwongen ze de vorsten van deze eilanden het Nederlands gezag te erkennen. Tijdens die gevechten werden deze kanonnen buitgemaakt. Een ervan is een oud VOC-kanon uit 1667.

  • Soort kunstwerkkanon
  • ObjectnummerNG-MC-1104
  • Afmetingenkulasband: diameter 22,3 cm, druifbol: diameter 7,6 cm, monding-zundgat: lengte 112 cm, geheel: lengte 136 cm x diameter 33,5 cm, druif-stootbodem: lengte 14,5 cm, loop: diameter 13,3 cm (kleinste diameter) x diameter 20,5 cm (grootste diameter), tap: diameter 6,7 cm, kaliber 6,7 cm x gewicht (eigenschap) 210 kg, stootbodem-tromp: lengte 121,5 cm
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Laurens Oxsen (circle of)

Gun

Batavia, 1667

Inscriptions

  • date, on the barrel:1667
  • monogram, on the barrel:A VOC
  • inscription, on the barrel:BATAVIA
  • on the breech ring:432

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1104

Entry

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 inventory1J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1104. 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.2E. Sint Nicolaas, ‘Drie “Indische kanonnen” en hun geschiedenis, Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 55 (2007), pp. 40-57.

Literature

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

Citation

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: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20018652

(accessed 11 December 2025 10:24:18).

Footnotes

  • 1J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1104.
  • 2E. Sint Nicolaas, ‘Drie “Indische kanonnen” en hun geschiedenis, Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 55 (2007), pp. 40-57.