Tankard with Medal of Sigismond I, King of Poland

Tankard: ca. 1550-1575; Medal: 1538 (Renaissance) 10 3/16 in. (25.8 cm) Citation Source image

Green jasper, turned on a lathe to create the cylinder of this tankard, is set off by finely engraved gilded silver mounts characteristic of south German workmanship of the mid to later 1500s. However, the gilded silver medal under the cover, its current placement apparently p...

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Seligmann; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1908 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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