The body of the lidded tankard is worked from a piece of narwhale tusk; the silver-gilt mount of the foot and cover are worked with convex and concave profiles; the edges of the foot and lip are connected with vertical strips; the thumb rest of the cover is palmette-shaped; a unicorn drinking from a tall footed bowl is engraved on the cover, with the inscription "Pello venuem procul" above it.
Provenance
Purchased before 1717 from duchess Auguste Dorothea of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt.
Literature / Source
Inventar 1717, fol. 12r-12v; Inventar 1764, fol. 11v, Nr. 39; Inventar 1830, fol. 15v, Nr. 4; Inventar 1858, Bd. I, Kap. XXVII, Nr. 23; Aldenhoven Geräth und Schmuck, Goldschmiedsarbeit Nr. 23
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