Bacchanal (ceremonial tankard)

Hollow lengths of elephant tusk were well suited for the decoration of lidded silver tankards. This continuous scene with a drunken Silenus and his entourage of satyrs comes from a 17th-century German tankard or Humpen, remounted in silver in the Netherlands in 1771.

Bacchanal (ceremonial tankard)

Hollow lengths of elephant tusk were well suited for the decoration of lidded silver tankards. This continuous scene with a drunken Silenus and his entourage of satyrs comes from a 17th-century German tankard or Humpen, remounted in silver in the Netherlands in 1771.