The shape of this piece conforms to the two major types of tankards produced in Iznik in the late sixteenth century, and the decoration of animals outlined in black in reserve against a green background is also standard. This mixture of lions, hounds, deer, jackals, hares, and birds, in poses ranging from the semiheraldic to unconcerned repose, appears on a great variety of wares and prefigures the continued taste for figural designs in the seventeenth century.