Three windmills for drawing water, Arnoldus van Geffen, 1752
silver (metal), h 7.1cm × w 6cm × d 3.7cm 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.
