A black male figure, made from brass, serves as the goblet's node; he wears a feather skirt, enamelled in white, green and red; the silver gilt fitting and stand are chased; the domed silver gilt foot is embellished with attached, sculpturally wrought silver arabesques.
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Inventar 1764, fol. 23r, Nr. 131 ; Inventar 1830, fol. 15v, Nr. 19; Inventar 1858, Bd. I, Kap. XXIX, Nr. 5; Aldenhoven Geräth und Schmuck, Goldschmiedsarbeit Nr. 18
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Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein
Gotha
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
Germany
