Shell-shaped, oval bowl with convexly cut decorations; the Hessian coat of arms on one side, the initials "LC" (landgrave Carl) on the other; shell-shaped foot with silver gilt mounting; signed: "Cassel fecit / 1688".
Provenance
Gifted by landgrave Karl of Hesse-Kassel to duke Frederick I of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
Literature / Source
Inventar 1717, fol. 15r; Inventar 1764, fol. 13v, Nr. 53; Inventar 1830, fol. 3v, Nr. 31; Inventar 1858, Bd. I, Kap. V, Nr. 69; Aldenhoven Geräth und Schmuck, Edelstein Nr. 163
Published since
Contact
Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein
Gotha
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
Germany
