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Tankard with Scenes with Putti
(Baroque Europe )
The carved ivory cylinder for a low tankard is one of a group attributed to a follower of the Nuremberg sculptor Leonhard Kern, all showing putti and putti bacchanals. This example depicts putti drinking and dancing; a pair playing piggyback; and the unusual subject of a putto chopping down a tree.
The piggyback putti are closely paralleled by a bronze from the workshop of Leonhard Kern, of which there is a bronze cast in the Walters Collection (Walters 54.291).
The mounts are missing, and the upper edge is reinforced with a modern gilt mount.
Provenance
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Purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
Geographies
Germany, Franconia (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 3 9/16 x Diam: 4 3/4 in. (9 x 12 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
71.417