This Mannerist-style cup was a gift to cavalry officer Hans Philipp von Hoheneck, a member of an important family of the Rhine area, to mark his departure for Hungary to fight against the Turks. It follows the usual scheme of a cylindrical central piece between an upper and lower part with mouldings and a lid topped with the typical warrior with a spear and shield. The decoration is splendid and varied. The central cylinder displays marine gods and goddesses and putti. Lion masks alternate with three-quarter-length male figures in the lower part, while the upper part displays eagles among garlands and heads of fantastical animals together with crowned female busts. This piece joined the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection when it was acquired by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza from Jacques Kugel in Paris in 1966.