Covered Tankard with the Olympian Gods
Along with its associations with distant lands and gigantic beats, the round shape of the elephant tusk, which is hollow at the base, made ivory a popular material for carved cups and tankards to be used and admired as luxury goods, especially by wealthy Germans.The subjects o...
Artifact
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7171
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object
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normalized
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Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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1
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_71.470_Fnt_TR.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_71.470_Fnt_TR.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_71.470_Fnt_TR.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.470 |
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Medium
carved ivory, gilt on silver
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