Windmill cup, anonymous, c. 1594 - c. 1595
gilding, h c.21cm More details
The earliest windmill cups, like this one, came from Antwerp. Over the course of the 17th century, this type of ‘wager cup’ (cup without a foot) became all the rage in the North. The little mill is shaped like an open post mill, a wooden grain mill that could turn around its axis to bring the sails into the wind.
