Horn in D

Unknown

first half 18th century · Pottery · Musical Instruments

Both the horn's flairing bell size and the tubing correspond to brass hunting horns used by the middle of the eighteenth century. A scratched “D” on the bell indicates pitch and suggests that the horn was made to be played. The outer brown glaze imitates the color of brass, while the dark glaze on the black-stained surface of the inner bell imitates the black varnish often seen on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century brass hunting horns. This horn confirms a German source of 1745 that mentions that in some areas peasants made horns and trumpets of clay.

Artist

Unknown

Date

first half 18th century

Medium

Pottery

Culture

Probably German

Department

Musical Instruments

Credit line

The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889