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This tankard was made for display, rather than for use, and its virtuoso carving indicates it was to be valued as a work of art above all. The artist Ignaz Elhafen often worked from engraved sources, and this is almost certainly based on a contemporary print. Although dating is difficult, the earliest known provenance for one of the other versions being Vienna suggests that the present ivory may have been carved there; Elhafen had left that city by 1704. The later silver mounts, gilded on the inside, bear a Vienna hallmark of 1792, also indicating that the ivory may well have been produced originally in Vienna.","physicalDescription":"A continuous frieze of half-naked women struggling with men of varying age, some in armour and helmeted, others draped and bare-headed. The ground is on different levels with flowers and foliage; a helmet lies to the right of the signature I.E. At the top a border of foliage and beads. 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