Object data
wood, iron, rope, textile and paint
model: height 151 cm × length 158 cm × width 50 cm
packaging capsule: height 156.5 cm × width 169 cm × depth 57 cm
anonymous
Model of a Schokker
Netherlands, 1800 - 1865
Provenance
...; sale, Louis Meyer (1809-1866, The Hague), The Hague (C. van Doorn en Zoon), 24 April 1865, no. 206 ('Een hollandsche schokker.'), to the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague; transferred to the museum, 18831
Object number: NG-MC-1183
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed rigged frame model of a ‘schokker’, a Dutch single-masted flat-bottomed carvel-built fishing vessel with leeboards.
The model has a typical straight, thick raking stem with a sheave at the end. The bow is rather sharp. It has a sharp stern with a raking sternpost, the broad rudder has a scrolled rudder head and a wooden tiller, which can be fixed on a sweep. There is a foredeck, an open cockpit with fish box and an aft cuddy. The bottom most strakes in the sides are pierced for the fish box. The model has a windlass on the foredeck, a gaff rig with mainsail and foresail and with a ring for a jibboom against the stem.
The model was bought by the Department of the Navy at auction in The Hague (Louis Meijer) on 24 April 1865.2
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1183; E.W. Petrejus, Oude zeilschepen en hun modellen, Bussum 1971, pp. 231-34
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Schokker, Netherlands, 1800 - 1865', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244996
(accessed 18 April 2024 15:04:14).