Two wager cups in the shape of a cannon, anonymous, c. 1550 - c. 1600
façon de Venise, l 28.3cm × w 5.9cm × d 5.2cm More details
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.
