A silver mounted ivory tankard

A silver mounted ivory tankard

Raised base decorated with shellwork and auricular designs supporting a vessel of oval section with an ivory cuff carved with a depiction of a cavalry battle, presumably Alexander the Great meeting the troops of Darius III at Issos. With an angular scroll handle and an acanthus clasped cone finial. H 19.8 cm.
Presumably Olmütz, mid-17th C.

Literature

For more on the Benack family of goldsmiths cf. Schirek/Damböck, Olmützer Goldschmiede: Nachdruck der Ausgabe im Selbstverlag des Autors, Brünn 1892, and Röder, Die Olmützer Künstler und Kunsthandwerker des Barock, Olmütz 1934, p. 47 f.