Corne d'appel

"Loudly"

This atypical object made of blue glass decorated with a spiral cord was discovered in the 1990s during the excavation of the site of the Nancy Museum of Fine Arts. The preventive excavation was carried out on a part of the modern fortifications of the city. Amongst a large quantity of furniture of all kinds, the object was found in the filling of the defensive ditches. Although fragmentary, its shape allows it to be interpreted as a calling horn or a hunting horn. Music is omnipresent, whether in hunting or in warfare. It allows to transcend the troops, accompanies the military pomp, transmits orders and signals to the men during the fights or the hunting. In modern times, hunting has not been a means of subsistence for many centuries; on the contrary, it is a privilege and a prestigious activity reserved for the ruling elite. Its practice becomes ritualized and is gradually surrounded by a pageantry of which music is an essential component.