A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MINIATURE PINE AND FRUITWOOD TANKARD
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MINIATURE PINE AND FRUITWOOD TANKARD APPARENTLY UNMARKED, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY The pinewood base with foliage-pierced mounts, the bombé body built up from fruitwood staves and enclosed by an engraved pierced silver-gilt hoop, with wood handle, the hinged cover applied with a silver-gilt band chased with grotesque masks within scroll cartouches with fruit festoons between, the finial cast as a seated bacchic infant holding a drinking cup, the thumbpiece cast with a circular medallion enclosing a grotesque mask 4¼ in. (11 cm.) high
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MINIATURE PINE AND FRUITWOOD TANKARD
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MINIATURE PINE AND FRUITWOOD TANKARD APPARENTLY UNMARKED, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY The pinewood base with foliage-pierced mounts, the bombé body built up from fruitwood staves and enclosed by an engraved pierced silver-gilt hoop, with wood handle, the hinged cover applied with a silver-gilt band chased with grotesque masks within scroll cartouches with fruit festoons between, the finial cast as a seated bacchic infant holding a drinking cup, the thumbpiece cast with a circular medallion enclosing a grotesque mask 4¼ in. (11 cm.) high
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