Three windmills for drawing water, Wessel Jansen, c. 1650 - before 1696
silver (metal), h 6.2cm × w 4.7cm × d 3.8cm More details
Some types of miniature continued to be produced for ages. One such ‘evergreen’ subject was the windmill placed above a well. These mills used wind power to draw up a bucket of water. While there is more than a century between the earliest and the latest, their form and decoration have remained virtually the same.
