A German silver tankard Apparently unmarked, late 19th century Cylindrical, on four grotesque mask and scroll feet, the base cast with a baroque frieze of cherubs, bacchic masks, scrolls and grapes, the body with a frieze of cherubs and a drunken Silenus in a Bacchic procession, with a chariot and horses, in a wooden landscape, the hinged domed cover chased with baroque cartouches, bacchic masks with laurel garlands, and scrolls on a textured ground, with cast infant Bacchus finial, the ribbon-tied double-scroll handle cast with a vacant shield cartouche surmounted by a baronet's coronet, with grotesque mask terminals and thumbpiece 11¾in. (30cm.) high 42oz. (1,321gr.)
A German silver tankard Apparently unmarked, late 19th century Cylindrical, on four grotesque mask and scroll feet, the base cast with a baroque frieze of cherubs, bacchic masks, scrolls and grapes, the body with a frieze of cherubs and a drunken Silenus in a Bacchic procession, with a chariot and horses, in a wooden landscape, the hinged domed cover chased with baroque cartouches, bacchic masks with laurel garlands, and scrolls on a textured ground, with cast infant Bacchus finial, the ribbon-tied double-scroll handle cast with a vacant shield cartouche surmounted by a baronet's coronet, with grotesque mask terminals and thumbpiece 11¾in. (30cm.) high 42oz. (1,321gr.)
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