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Two pouring cups in the shape of a cannon
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineTwee stortebekers in de vorm van een kanon. 1589. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
