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This belongs to a significant group of enamelled tankards, beakers and goblets, mostly in cobalt blue, that has been attributed by von Saldern to the Schürer and Preussler glasshouses in the Bohemian Erzgebirge. Most examples are dated, with dates ranging from 1577 to 1618. The usual subject is hunting, with two hounds chasing either a stag, a hare or a fox. In their catalogue of the Ernesto Wolf Collection (1987), Klesse and Mayr show a goblet dated 1598 with a very similar fox hunt for which they cite a possible print source of Jost Amman's Thier-Büchlein published in Frankfurt in 1592, although other print sources have also been suggested and the decoration is, after all, highly stylised.