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Two wager cups in the shape of a cannon
Also titled Twee stortebekers in de vorm van een kanon
c. 1550 - c. 1600
- Medium
- glass
- Classification
- cannon
- Dimensions
- length 28.3 cm x width 5.9 cm x depth 5.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- A.J. Enschedé Bequest, Haarlem
- 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
A wager cup (also termed a ‘drink-up’) is so-called because the user could not set it down when it was full and thus had to drain it. Wager cups came in all shapes and forms, among them these fragile cannons.
