Tankard with Bacchanalia

late 19th century 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm) Citation Source image

This extraordinary vessel, carved entirely of ivory, recalls in form and decoration 17th-century German and Flemish prototypes.Encircling the drum of the Walters tankard is a bacchanalia including a nymph with a putto on her knee, a youth playing cymbals, two bacchantes adorni...

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11779
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Dr. Ronald T. Abercrombie [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1955, by gift.
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en
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ivory

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